Crystal Wine Bordeaux 2007 Tasting (Part I)

Bordeaux 2007 Thematic Tasting @ Crystal Wine in Jan. Chose the later session (4-7pm) and these are all the people who turned up. Might as well, since it makes for a more relaxed session with less fighting over water and spit buckets! Overall impression - Very tannic experience as expected with these wines < 4 years old, but some wines are already shining though with great potential, and these will become stars in another 4 years or more.

Lascombes - Margaux 2GCC. Typical Margaux aromatics - Floral and open, excellent nose! But palate did not live up, very thin with bitterness streak at the finish, thou tannins are relatively smooth (7.3/10).

Ducru Beaucaillou - St Julian 2GCC. Fairly closed nose of graphite. Mouthfeel is fantastic - fruit cake flavors with mouth coating smooth tannins. Very rounded, mid to full bodied and a long finish. Great wine even this young (8.7/10)

Dom de Chevalier - Graves GCC. Very lot of funk on the nose, almost like a garbage truck just drove by. Palate is very New World, extracted but flat. Some minerality giving hints to its Graves terrior. Acidic (7.2/10)

Cos D'estournel - St Estephe 2GCC. Pedigree showing though even at this young age. Fairly open nose of old leather, wet stones....classy bouquet. In the mouth, lots going on -  fruity, lush tannins overlaid with buttery overtones and rounded finish. It can only get better with age. WOTN (9.1/10)