1982 Château Chasse-Spleen

[jdaw1]

London welcomes g-man, The Crusting Pipe, Friday 6th May 2011.

Links:

• Review of evening as a whole;
• 1955 Dow;
• 1958 Dow;
• 1960 Warre;
• 1970 Butler Nephew;
• 1970 Croft;
• 1980 Taylor;
• 1985 Gould Campbell;
• 1982 Château Chasse-Spleen;
• Planning and arrangements;
• Placemats.

[jdaw1]

The claret (I’m afraid the house name escapes) me was truly excellent. I don’t really drink Bordeaux and this was the first one I’ve tried in ages that really grabbed me and made me realise what it could be like.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Decanted for 2 hours. Still very youthful in appearance. Fruit driven nose, which Jeff perfectly described as wet tobacco leaves. Sweet fruit on the palate, dry and cheek-furring tannins but with masses of lovely fruit. Gorgeous aftertaste - big, dry and long lasting. This is superb claret. 93/100.

[jdaw1]

Sounds delicious. Seemingly about £60 a bottle, all-in.

[JacobH]

For those who know a bit more about claret, is this a typical offering from Chasse-Spleen? En primeur it’s about £17 a bottle IB which seems pretty good if it matures like this.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Chaser Spleen is a reliable house and represents good value until it's reputation starts to drive the price up. However, would you rather buy the 1982 vintage now for £60 and enjoy splendid drinking with dinner tonight, or the 2010 vintage for £17 in bond and enjoy a splendid drink in 30 years time after having paid a total of an additional £25 per bottle for storage, duty and VAT?

[JacobH]

Chaser Spleen is a reliable house and represents good value until it's reputation starts to drive the price up. However, would you rather buy the 1982 vintage now for £60 and enjoy splendid drinking with dinner tonight, or the 2010 vintage for £17 in bond and enjoy a splendid drink in 30 years time after having paid a total of an additional £25 per bottle for storage, duty and VAT?

Thanks; that’s good to know. But as for the second piece of advice...surely on a Port forum such considerations are irrelevant (or should we all stop buying Port on release? )! More seriously, I was also looking at some of the minor years of the 1990s where it goes for about £20-25 a bottle which seems quite good value, too.

[g-man]

96 is approachable

94 is mature but won't be as fruity as the 82.

00 is very lush and approachable as is the 05 (if you don't wnat to wait all those years)

if you like that wet tobacco flavor though, only thing to do is buckle down.

£60 all in? =( sniff, when buying across country lines, i get hit with a 2% finance fee, 3% bank fee and a 1.2% fx exchange fee on top of shipping charges

you guys in the uk have no idea how good you have it =)

[JacobH]

£60 all in? =( sniff, when buying across country lines, i get hit with a 2% finance fee, 3% bank fee and a 1.2% fx exchange fee on top of shipping charges

you guys in the uk have no idea how good you have it =)

Why not move over? Everything points to it. I’m sure there’s a better tea market over here too, and we need a new American to replace Doty