This week I had two successive superb dinner parties with a couple of business friends at the Oxford & Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London. Good food and the 20 years old 1988 Château Giscours was, both times, as fresh and fruity and delicious as any superb Cabernet Sauvignon based wine can prove to become after being carefully and dully kept for a long time - I still think that a minimum of 10 years is required for a Bordeaux wine to show its value, as it used to be back in the 20th century, not so long ago.
It proves that some wine producers and mainstream consumers are very wrong selling and consuming their Bordeaux so young as it became common practice. There ought to be many financial alternatives to put an end to this wine infanticide.
As they state in their own website: "The quality of the wine is proportional to the age of the vines. One quarter of Château Giscours’ plots are over 40 years old" Link
And this 20 years old 1988 is currently fantastic.
