What's Pressoir Drinking?

By Raj Vaidya
November 18

Pressoir.wine Dinner - Left Bank of Bordeaux

Recently, the team and I came across an immaculately preserved cellar in rural Connecticut full of case quantities of the greatest Châteaux in Bordeaux. Too good a treasure trove to pass over, we decided to buy a handful of bottles and put together a couple dinners to showcase how great mature Claret can be, especially when perfectly stored. Our first installment was held last evening at Andrew Carmellini’s new restaurant on the East River in old New York, Carne Mare, and it focused on offerings from the Left Bank appellations.

The highlights for me were the pencil-lead invoking aromas of the 1978 Domaine de Chevalier, seriously smokey and dried cassis flavors of the 1982 Gruaud Larose (an overachiever in my opinion) and the quiet delicatesse of the 1964 Mouton Rothschild. But the most impressive wine was the youngest, the spectacular 1990 Latour, always a showstopper.

A full list of wines can be found below, and if you should happen to be available, Edouard will be hosting the next installment, a focus on the Right Bank (appropriately held in Williamsburg, aka the Right Bank of the East River estuary) on December 2nd. A full list of those wines can be found at Pressoir.wine…

Domaine de Chevalier, Pessac-Léognan 1988

Domaine de Chevalier, Graves 1985

Domaine de Chevalier, Graves 1978

Château Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien 1982

Château Branaire, Saint-Julien 1982

Château Léoville-Las-Cases, Saint-Julien 1982

Château Latour, Pauillac 1990

Château Mouton-Rothschild, Pauillac 1964

Château Margaux, Margaux 1981

Château d'Yquem, Sauternes 1988