Tasting young to old v old to young
14 Jan 2005 by JR
Andrew McKinna, Dordogne: Reading your recent notes on Planeta Chardonnays 1994-2001 reminded us how young the few that we have tasted actually were, perhaps because we have tended to order it in restaurants rather than drink it at home. But what caught my eye was the apparent order in which you tasted - oldest first, youngest last? Do your tasting notes reflect the actual sequence in which you taste the different vintages? And, if so, do you have a different approach to mature claret, for example? Would you taste younger wines first – 10 or 20 years younger - before approaching a mature blockbuster such as a 1959? me: Good...

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