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From an ullaged bottle. Deep honey colour, slightly cloudy. Honey and rosemary nose, a touch of orange blossom - very dusty and slightly dirty with lots of higher alcohols. Sweet and light-bodied palate, lots of orange blossom honey - elegant but very slow in delivering the power of honey and flowers. A flash of volatility on the aftertaste before the long finish of honey and cedar wood. Very oxidised, but very pleasant nevertheless. 84/100. Drunk 15-Apr-15.

On Wednesday 15th April 2015 Wolfgang, Alex, Tom, Enrico, Maggie, my father and I met for some old claret at Otto’s, 182 Gray’s Inn Road WC1X 8EW.

Links:

• Review of the evening as a whole;
• 1961 Château Belloy;
• 1947 Château la Dominique;
• 1967 Château la Dominique;
• 1943 Château Gachon;
• 1959 Château Lafon-Rochet;
• 1955 Château la Pointe;
• 1970 Château la Pointe;
• 1995 Château la Pointe;
• 1920 Sandeman;
• 1935 Sandeman;
• Stickies and TN pages.

S35: pale brown, 15% opaque. Nose sharply acidic. Palate of vanilla and marzipan, particularly light in the mid palate, with honey at the end. Showing its age.