Why do old Bordeaux's not follow vintage charts

[John_Morris]

@David Glasser

Bottles of Bordeaux are unable to read the vintage charts, and therefore do not know how they are supposed to behave. If they aren’t following the vintage charts, it’s because you have not been training them properly. This also explains bottle variation.

I offer my services as Wine Whisperer to those who are concerned about the proper training of their Bordeaux. For a modest fee (and travel expenses), I will come to your cellar and train your bottles, sampling them on occasion to insure that they remain on track.

David Glasser, WW

It’s too bad that Alan doesn’t like old wines. I’m sure you could be of great service to him if he did.

[Howard_Cooper]

@David Glasser

Bottles of Bordeaux are unable to read the vintage charts, and therefore do not know how they are supposed to behave. If they aren’t following the vintage charts, it’s because you have not been training them properly. This also explains bottle variation.

I offer my services as Wine Whisperer to those who are concerned about the proper training of their Bordeaux. For a modest fee (and travel expenses), I will come to your cellar and train your bottles, sampling them on occasion to insure that they remain on track.

David Glasser, WW

[Mark_Golodetz]

@John Morris

@Howard Cooper

Had the 1976-1980 Jordan’s, but a long time ago. How have they aged?

Not so well. I had one recently. Too little acid and tannin, I think.

I recently had one bad 1978, so the following day pulled out another which was excellent. Both had good color; hard to know what went wrong with the first bottle.

[Arv_R]

Mark - are there producers you’ve observed more variability with - as wines age - than others? It seems like some of this might be related to the quality control around bottling, corks, seals etc. Maybe if one has kept solid cases over decades it becomes more clear which estates are less consistent in that dimension, which isn’t going to be observable on release.