Mark Lipton > wrote in
:

>
> I'm not Dale, but...

Thanks Mark, I did not pretend to exclude anyone, just asking Dale about
his opinion on the bottle he had drunk.

> I'd say that the Roilette normale can usually age 5-10 years in a
> decent year and the Tardive positively requires aging to show well.

That was my understanding, too.

I
> know people who are drinking Tardives from the mid-to-late '90s with
> pleasure right now.

I guess it also depends on how you like your wines too. I have met
winelovers who never find a wine mature enough. I tend to like my wines
aged but still with some fruit, and am not very kind on plums which for me
is a sign of oxidation (that I do not like). Morgon, I love it with 5
years. Sometimes it is great at age 10, but sometimes it is not. That said,
2009 are now age 6 and are drinking so well. Will share a double magnum of
Cote du Py 2009 with friends soon, for the sake of size.

I don't have enough experience with te Griffe du
> Marquis to make an intelligent guess about it, but I'd hazard that
> anything from Alain Coudert will be able to go some years from
> bottling without any problem.

Thanks Mark. What I meant with my question to Dale is if he thought I
should start drinking my 3 bottles now or the wine would be better next
year.

Best,

s.