Coravined these LB ladies, whom many of you are well aquatinted with. See pics for color comparison
2014 obviously had the most fruit, both on the nose and palette. Light ruby with slight brick change at the rim. Mostly red fruits and some black fruit. Cherry, plum, tobacco, and cedar. Medium intensity, nice acid, retained quite a bit of freshness with fine, prickly tannins
2006 blew me away. Ruby core with a garnet/brick change rim. The nose was very intense with red and black fruits, sweet tobacco, cigar box, and cedar. Everything just grew and intensified over the hour which I nursed this bad boy. Palette had beautiful acid and intense tobacco/cigar box, almost overshadowing the subsiding, but still present fruit. Maybe the fruit felt fresher than it really was because it retained great and balanced acid. Comparing all three wines side by side, the 2006 clearly held up the strongest.
2003 clearly past it’s peak. Fun to compare the color side by side. Slight browning and rust colors at the rim. The nose was just awful. I thought maybe there was some TCA but it blew off and revealed some interesting leather, tobacco, cedar, and forest floor/mushroomy aromas. Palette was full of dried red and black fruits, chocolate, and herbs. Showed the most complexity and layers of flavors
Paired these wines with some buffalo wings, which was just terrible. Opened a champagne instead to enjoy with dinner and went back after to finish these wines. Surprisingly the 2003 got a whole lot better after some time, or maybe I’m just drunk.
Cheers
by thatssogucci