How Wine Ages – tasting the same wines a decade apart – Wednesday 7th October

Great wine takes time. The Libération Tardive Foundation was set up with that exact mantra in mind, and a remit to celebrate the rewards of properly cellared vintages.

A not-for-profit organisation promoting the appropriate ageing of fine wine, Libération Tardive was co-founded by Club Member Dominic Buckwell. We are delighted, then, to welcome Dominic back to the Club – after co-hosting our sell-out BYOB Burgundy Week dinner earlier in the year – for an evening spent tasting some splendid older wines alongside their younger selves.

This time around, Dominic will be joined by two masters of wine – Richard Bampfield MW and Demetri Walters MW – to run through six different pairs of wines, comparing vintages a decade or so apart. Ranging from Rheingau Riesling to Barossa Shiraz, we will explore the nuances of a wine’s ageing, finishing with a 50-year-old Madeira side-by-side with a 10-year-old.

In between times, we’ll try to fathom why certain wines age in the way they do; how to tell a wine’s likely trajectory when tasting it young; and how to judge the optimum time to open a bottle. The answers to all these questions and more will be found at the bottom of 12 glasses, with the help of three wise older men, in the first week of October. See you there.

Welcome drink:
2015 Champagne De Venoge, Blanc de Blancs

The wines we will be tasting:
2009 Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine sur Lie, Leloup Cuvees des Ceps Centenaires, Chéreau-Carré, Loire Valley
2019 Muscadet Sevre-et-Maine sur Lie Leloup Cuvees des Ceps Centenaires, Chéreau-Carré, Loire Valley
2002 Riesling sur Lie, Weingut Querbach, Rheingau, Germany
2010 Riesling sur Lie, Weingut Querbach, Rheingau, Germany
2011 Cabernet Sauvignon, Casa Real Reserva Especial, Maipo Valley, Chile
2023 Cabernet Sauvignon, Casa Real Reserva Especial, Maipo Valley, Chile
2001 Chateau Phélan Ségur, St Estèphe
2019 Chateau Phélan Ségur, St Estèphe
2012 Shiraz, Turkey Flat, Barossa Valley, Australia
2022 Shiraz, Turkey Flat, Barossa Valley, Australia
1976 Bual Vintage Madeira, Blandy’s
10-Year-Old Bual Madeira, Blandy’s

Wednesday 7th October
St. James’s Room
18:30 – Glass on arrival
19:00 – Masterclass starts
20:30 – Masterclass ends

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