Recent revelations – a mixed bag

Here is a modest assemblage of a few wines tasted recently that made a particularly strong impression for one reason or another.

At dinner on Easter Sunday we served four 1983 red bordeaux in two pairs and the results were far from what I expected. When Ch La Lagune 1983 and Ch Léoville Las Cases 1983 were tasted beside each other, I expected the much cheaper wine, which I’d tasted not so long before and knew to be one of Bill Baker’s favourites but also knew to be pretty light, to be blown off the table by the sheer...