In tribute to my colleague Airborne Lawyer . . .

**Roguish Lawyer** · 11-26-2004, 21:22

. . . I bought this tonight. And we're drinking it tonight.

Of course, a real tribute would be something current. Latour made money from this bottle many years ago, and I'm really paying an American wine shop without any real benefit to France.

The cork doesn't look great, so this may suck. Or it could be incredible. I'll let you know later . . .

NousDefionsDoc · 11-26-2004, 23:18

Freedom wine?

**Roguish Lawyer** · 11-27-2004, 10:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc

Freedom wine?

LOL

OK, opening a 29-year-old bottle of wine is a bit of a challenge, so I decided to document it for devotees of this forum.

The photos of the cork in the bottle did not come out great, but I think you can see the dried material all around the cork -- the top looks like one solid surface, not a cork in the center of a bottle top.

**Roguish Lawyer** · 11-27-2004, 10:22

I didn't get any cork in the wine, but it did come out in two pieces.

Notice how the entire cork is saturated.

**Roguish Lawyer** · 11-27-2004, 10:23

Sorry, Solid, no double-decanting.

**Roguish Lawyer** · 11-27-2004, 10:31

The wine held up pretty well. Opened up after about 30 minutes in the decanter. Fairly long, complex finish with earthy fruit flavors. Candidly, however, it wasn't that great given what I paid for it. Good, but not great for what it is. You can see that there was very little sediment in the bottle.

Here are someone else's thoughts:

http://www.wine-journal.com/latourtastingnotes.html