1995 Vintage Bordeaux Wine Tasting with Mouton, Lynch Bages, Valandraud, La Mission Haut Brion and more...Friday, September 19th 7:30pm and all the 1995 vintage wines in the store on SALE!!
Music is just like wine. Each of us has very different tastes in what we like and dislike. The music that is “best” for one person can easily be “worst” for another people. So it’s always fun to see when wine is mentioned in song.
The 1995 vintage was the first very good vintage that the critics had to talk about in the 1990's and many of the wines are now just now starting to reach its peak years of drinking pleasure. Most of the top wines from 1995 are ready to drink but some may need another decade to be drinking at their best but that’s what were going to figure out.
This is true scientific research that we are doing here at the Wine Watch, checking each bottle to see when the best time to consume for the most drinking pleasure. It's hard word but we are willing to sacrifice our body for our wine drinking people. These wines are all being served out of Magnum format so you will have plenty of each wine and the wines out of magnum are always fresher and have more aging potential.
This tasting is a pre-poured sit-down event and is limited to 12 tasters. The price for this tasting which includes dinner is $350 + tax, for reservations call 954-523-9463.
1995 Bordeaux Wine Tasting
Friday, September 19th
7:30 PM
1995 Chateau de Valandraud Saint Emilion Grand Cru
1995 Chateau Pape Clement Pessac-Leognan
1995 Chateau La Mission Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
1995 Chateau Brane-Cantenac, Margaux
1995 Chateau d'Issan, Margaux
1995 Chateau de Tertre Margaux
1995 Chateau Latour 'Les Forts de Latour' Pauillac
1995 Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac
1995 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac
1995 Chateau de Rayne Vigneau Sauternes
Menu
Charcuterie and Cheese Selection
Mushroom Carpaccio with Tomato Tartar and lavender Aioli
Tuna Tartar with Avocado, Nori, Orange and Toasted Walnuts
Duck Confit with Current Demi Glaze and Pommes Frites
Canelés de Bordeaux with Pineapple Rum Sauve
This tasting is a pre-poured sit down event and is limited to 12 tasters. The price for this tasting and dinner is $350 + tax, for reservations call 954-523-9463
A bit about the 1995 Vintage from Bordeaux
This year is one of controversy in Bordeaux as it was initially very highly touted by the press. Many were just ready to praise anything that looked even remotely good as the first four harvests of the decade were not very good. So when the 1995 vintage came around and the
wines were a product of a large harvest, there was also some economic advantages to giving it high marks. You have to go all the way back to 1986 Bordeaux harvest to find a vintage that produced yields like this. After a moderate winter, the first few months of the growing season delivered enough rain to reset the water tables. The warm spring got the bud break off right on schedule and the flowering completed before June. June, July and August set records for heat and a lack of rain going back as far as 40 years! It was an incredibly hot, dry summer. It rained quite a bit from September 7 through September 19. Those rains caused issues with the Merlot and pushed up the harvest for the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, which is part of the reason why these wines show a tannic profile. The 1995 Bordeaux harvest officially began the day the rain stopped on September 20.
1995 Bordeaux wine is a polarizing vintage. When the critics first tasted these wines the professionals forecast 1995 Bordeaux wine in a positive light and that they just needed time to shed their tannins. This was perhaps because it was the first vintage since 1990 to warrant purchasing as a future and consumers were thirsty for Claret as they bought everything in sight. Even though they were shocked that prices were up more than 100% from the previous vintage in some cases. 1995 Bordeaux wine was considered to be consistent, as it appeared that good wines were produced from the Left Bank and the Right Bank.
With time has 1995 Bordeaux become a disappointment? There are some that feel it is now a similar vintage to 1975, where far too many wines lack charm. The tannins are still hard in some of the top wines and the wines have an austere character, do they just need more time or will the 1995 Bordeaux wine fails to offer elegance and flattering textures in the end.
All the 1995 vintage wines in the store on SALE!!
1995 Charles Cimicky Red Blend Barossa Australia
Price: $59.00 Sale Price: $51.92 Quantity in Stock: 27
1995 Clos du Bois Marlstone Alexander Valley USA
Price: $90.00 Sale Price: $75.00 Quantity in Stock: 11
1995 Chateau St Jean 'Cinq Cepages' Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma County, USA
Price: $150.00 Sale Price: $125.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Duckhorn Merlot Howell Mountain Napa
Price: $175.00 Sale Price: $135.00 Quantity in Stock: 8
1995 Jessandra Vittoria Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma
Price: $55.00 Your Price: $48.40 Quantity in Stock: 67
1995 Guenoc Langtry Red Blend Guenoc Valley
Price: $89.00 Sale Price: $70.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
1995 Harlan Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Napa
Price: $2250.00 Your Price: $1980.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Hess Persson Estates Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon, Mount Veeder, USA
Price: $95.00 Your Price: $83.60 Quantity in Stock: 2
1995 St. Supery Red Meritage Napa Valley
Price: $95.00 Sale Price: $75.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Canalicchio Di Sopra Brunello di Montalcino
Price: $189.00 Your Price: $166.32 Quantity in Stock: 18
1995 Poggio Antico Brunello di Montalcino Riserva DOCG
Price: $218.75 Sale Price: $175.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Luigi Righetti Capitel De' Roari, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG, Italy
Price: $150.00 Sale Price: $115.00 Quantity in Stock: 64
1995 COSIMO TAURINO PATRIGLIONE ROSSO SALENTO IGT, PUGLIA, ITALY
Price: $85.00 Sale Price: $65.00 Quantity in Stock: 64
1995 Bodegas Montecillo Gran Reserva Rioja DOCa, S
Price: $93.75 Sale Price: $75.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Domaine De La Romanee Conti Romanee Conti Grand Cru
Price: $25750.00 Your Price: $22660.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Domaine de la Romanee Conti La Tache Grand Cru
Price: $6500.00 Your Price: $5720 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Lucien et Andre Brunel Chateauneuf-du-Pape Les Cailloux Cuvee Centenaire
Price: $175.00 Sale Price: $139.00 Quantity in Stock: 2
1995 Chateau Brane-Cantenac, Margaux, France
Price: $180.00 Your Price: $158.40 Quantity in Stock: 10
1995 Chateau d'Issan, Margaux, France
Price: $235.00 Sale Price: $180.00 Quantity in Stock: 13
1995 Chateau de Tertre Margaux
Price: $150.00 Sale Price: $120.00 Quantity in Stock: 12
1995 Chateau La Mission Haut Brion Pessac Leognan Bordeaux, France
Price: $625.00 Sale Price: $495.99 Quantity in Stock: 17
1995 Chateau Latour 'Les Forts de Latour' Pauillac, France
Price: $425.00 Sale Price: $350.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
1995 CHATEAU LYNCH BAGES PAUILLAC
Price: $425.00 Sale Price: $350.00 Quantity in Stock: 15
1995 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac
Price: $999.00 Sale Price: $795.00 Quantity in Stock: 40
1995 Chateau Pape Clement Pessac-Leognan
Price: $219.00 Your Price: $192.72 Quantity in Stock: 2
1995 Chateau de Valandraud Saint Emilion Grand Cru
Price: $550.00 Your Price: $484.00 Quantity in Stock: 6
1995 Taylor Fladgate Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port
Price: $99.00 Sale Price: $85.00 Quantity in Stock: 8
1995 Warre's Quinta Da Cavadinha Vintage Port
Price: $120.00 Your Price: $105.60 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Chateau de Rayne Vigneau Sauternes
Price: $195.00 Your Price: $171.60 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Domaine Huet Vouvray 'Cuvee Constance' Moelleux Loire 500ml
Price: $200.00 Sale Price: $165.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 Domaine Des Baumard Quarts De Chaume
Price: $139.00 Sale Price: $115.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
1995 D'OLIVEIRA MADEIRA TINTA NEGRA
Price: $265.00 Your Price: $233.20 Quantity in Stock: 2
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