Older wines ...

This evening we were looking for a wine to drink before the TV and decided to have the last remaining bottle of 1998 Condesa de Leganza Reserva (DO La Mancha) which was still in the cellar since a few years. Unfortunately it had turned bad ... the smell contained a lot of (expected) tertiary aromas like forest and fur, but the taste had some unidentified taste that I really did not appreciate at all (it reminded me somewhat of chicory, but it was not the same).

After emptying the bottle in the sink (pity, as we both remember that we liked this wine a lot a few years ago) we went back to the cellar to get another lonely bottle ... this time it was a 1999 Devil's Lair Cabarnet Sauvignon from the well known Margaret River region in Australia.
This one was still perfect ... also here a lot of tertiary aromas like old leather, but this time the taste really matched the nose and was really exquisite.

As interesting side note: this is probably one of the first wines that we bought at more than 10Euro a bottle (somewhere back in 2003 I guess). In fact we bought the cheaper Fifth Leg wine (a blend) from the same estate first, and after doubting somewhat we also bought six bottles of this Cab Sav. Unfortunately this wine was not for sale anymore the year after ...