美味しいワインと出会う旅

フランス産・ブルゴーニュ赤ワインDRCラ・ターシュ1988 赤【DRC La Tache1988】

色は深く美しい澄んだルビー色、 

素晴らしいDRCらしい香りです。

ラズベリー、獣、赤身肉、ハーブ、エキゾチックなスパイス、森の下草、典型的なラ・ターシュやロマネ・コンティの甘い香りです。

味わいは濃密な果実味、柔らかい酸、果実に覆われたタンニン、厚みのあるピノです。熟成感も適度にあって良いワインです。まだまだ良い方向に熟成するでしょう。

ジャイエと飲み比べると雑味があると言うか木屑や沢庵の味が残ります。

ジャイエの方がスタイリッシュでラ・ターシュの方が厚化粧です。まあ好みの問題ですが・・・

1988 Domaine de la Romanee Conti La Tache

Feb 2002 Robert Parker 86 Drink: N/A $1400-$2551
The 1988 La Tache reveals a moderately interesting bouquet of Asian spices, dried herbs, earth, and sweet red and black fruits. However, it is surprisingly shallow, medium-bodied, and short on the palate.

Wine Advocate # 100
Aug 1995 Robert Parker 88 Drink: N/A $1400-$2551
PRODUCTION: 1,678 cases. This wine was spectacular from cask, but tasting it three times from bottle has been a bewildering experience. The color is a disturbingly light to medium ruby. The wine's aromatics exhibit oak, smoke, and vanilla, but little fruit. No amount of coaxing or breathing enhances the wine's bouquet, which appears to crack up with exposure to air. There is moderately high tannin and good concentration, as well as a nasty toughness, suggesting a deficiency in flesh, weight, and extraction. Although it was impressive young, it now appears to be a lightweight La Tache. Will it turn around?

Burgundy Book # B2
Jan 1990 Robert Parker 97 Drink: 1995 - 2015 $1400-$2551
The 1988 La Tache has the monumental, telltale bouquet of overripe, gamey, exotic fruit, oriental spices, and flavors that simply overwhelm. It is clearly a fabulous wine with extraordinary concentration and presence on the palate and a mind blowing, utterly compelling finish. Fortunately, given the large production in 1988, there are 1,806 cases to be allocated around the world. My notes show an anticipated maturity date of 1995-2015. It is an incredible wine..

The prices for the wines of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti may be exorbitant but the quality of the wines produced in the eighties is truly remarkable. The 1988s are celestial wines selling at stratospheric prices. The 1988 production was twice what it was in 1987, but the same as in 1985. The 1988s are fuller-bodied, deeper, more concentrated wines than the superb 1987s, and will need some time in the cellar to shed their generous amounts of tannin. The only vintage they can be favorably compared with is the 1985 vintage, and the 1985s were a great deal more forward and flattering to taste when young. There is more depth in the 1988s than in the 1986s or even the superb 1980s (which turned out to be the finest wines made in that underrated vintage).