Pauillac, Bordeaux, France. 12.5%. Cork.
I should travel to South East Asia more often. It seems each visit is accompanied by the opening of a bottle of Pichon Lalande. . . Though not an esteemed vintage, I still found the wine superb. This of course might have something to do with the preceding several hours, which were spent blissfully and sweatily wandering around the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The dragonflies are obviously camera trained. . . I think this is a male Neurothemis fluctuans - aka the common parasol.
Before the Pichon a lovely bottle of the 2004 Olivier Leflaive Puligny Montrachet. This seemed more flesh than stone and being Antipodean I was reminded of Margaret River. The red was beautiful - spiced and pretty, violet and tobacco and a sense of refinement and grace. Something not easily captured by the hoards of new world pretenders. Lovely texture and structure, more enveloping and less sinew and hardness than the 1999. Tasted out of context (the only red Bordeaux @ for lunch, in a beautiful home on a manicured Singaporean hill, surrounded by strange fruit and friendly faces) I'd give this 95. Now - 2016+
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