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Grange labels
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:50 pm
by 707
My options group had a tasting last night at T-Chow where the food was excellent as usual and the wines matched.
It was the turn of one of the group to provide all eight wines, which he presented in pairs. The wines turned out to be 86 & 96 Bin 28 Kalimna, 86 & 96 St.Henri, 83 & 93 Bin 707 (my favourite of course
, and 81 & 91 Bin 95.
The blurb on the two Grange's was interesting - the 81 said "this great wine developed by Max Schubert commencing with the 1952 vintage", the 91 said "commencing with the 1951 vintage". Seems history changed or was discovered in the ten years between the two bottlings!
As for the wines on the night, 1986 St.Henri and 1981 Grange got the vote from me.
Re: Grange labels
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:01 pm
by Michael McNally
707
That must have been a great tasting.
Thanks. It sparked my imagination. It's as if (not "like") I were there in mind, if not spirit.
Michael
Re: Grange labels
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:39 pm
by tos
Did people note the similarity/relationship in the pairs of wines?
Re Grange, 1951 was the first (experimental) vintage. 1952 was the first commercially released vintage.
Re: Grange labels
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:43 pm
by n4sir
707 wrote:My options group had a tasting last night at T-Chow where the food was excellent as usual and the wines matched.
It was the turn of one of the group to provide all eight wines, which he presented in pairs. The wines turned out to be 86 & 96 Bin 28 Kalimna, 86 & 96 St.Henri, 83 & 93 Bin 707 (my favourite of course
, and 81 & 91 Bin 95.
The blurb on the two Grange's was interesting - the 81 said "this great wine developed by Max Schubert commencing with the 1952 vintage", the 91 said "commencing with the 1951 vintage". Seems history changed or was discovered in the ten years between the two bottlings!
As for the wines on the night, 1986 St.Henri and 1981 Grange got the vote from me.
tos wrote:Re Grange, 1951 was the first (experimental) vintage. 1952 was the first commercially released vintage.
I think tos has nailed the reason for the quirky change in the label sometime between 81-91.
What were the dishes you tried that were an excellent match for the big reds? (could be handy to know for this Thursday's offline)
Cheers,
Ian
Re: Grange labels
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:41 pm
by bacchaebabe
How was the 91 Grange travelling? I've got a few of hese but wasn't planning on opening any for quite some time yet.
Re: Grange labels
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:22 pm
by TiggerK
bacchaebabe wrote:How was the 91 Grange travelling? I've got a few of these but wasn't planning on opening any for quite some time yet.
Ditto!!