Chateau Lynch Bages is a fifth growth claret with a popular following.
Its current performance is well above the average in the lower two growths and
some would gladly consider the wine a second growth. My wife and I have a big
problem with it. We enjoy it very much when we know that we're drinking the
wine, but when it comes to blind tasting, we consistently put it in the last
three places of our preference (usually between 6 to12 wines tasted).
Sometimes blind tasting is not as objective and fair as one might think.
When you know the wine, you can open the bottle for it to breathe its optimum
time for maximum enjoyment. Yet in blind tasting, all bottles are opened at
more or less the same time, so that by the time it is tasted, some wines would
have breathed optimally, but there would be others that would be under- or over-
breathed.
Recently, I did rate Lynch Bages in my top three; was it that the wine
was optimally breathed, or have my tastebuds resolved my differences with this
chateau?
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