What do you do when hospitality far exceeds any expectation? Well, that's what we experienced from Gordy and Perfect P. The least we could do as a trade off was to open a couple of interesting clarets, as that's what is important to Gordy especially.
It was back to 1983, with Pauillac vs St Julien. A Ch. Pontet Canet vs Ducru Beaucaillou, not exactly equals, but there you have it. The Pontet-Canet was full, up-front, still plummy and dark fruited, but obviously with savoury development characters of game. It looked to lack finesse and liveliness of acidity. The Ducru Beaucaillou very elegant and refined, as it always is. Lovely cool notes of class, with cedar and lead pencils Excellent freshness and acidity, with very fine-grained structure. You could choose one or the other depending on what you wanted. A trade-off really.
With air time, the Pontet-Canet got more vigorous and looked more youthful. The Ducru Beaucaillou got cooler and more mature. Strange how that happens. And we all marvelled at how clean they both were. No brettanomyces!
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