Chateau Talbot 2004

I have a guilty secret. I like listening to Radio 2. I know where this comes from, it was my misspent youth listening to Radio 1 in the eighties, and, twenty years on, the DJs from Radio1 have been shipped off to the sister station. Part of the Radio 2 schedule is the Jeremy Vine show, where, peppered with music, he has various guests on his show to discuss the issues of the day. Inevitably, this show involves some intelligent debate but also a bunch of morons spewing forth uneducated bigoted drivel. Look at it as a Jerry Springer show for the radio where the morons are different to the American version simply because they are not inbred.

Anyway, on Friday, Vine was talking about sleeping and people who cannot get rest and how they are having issues performing their jobs well because they don't have the rest they need. And when I tried Chateau Talbot 2004, I immediately thought back to that radio show because this wine needs time to rest, to soften up and perform well, just like Vine's listeners that phoned in to moan about being sleepy.

There was cherry, tobacco and a little polish on the nose, some sweet toffee too mixed with some menthol. Quite an attractive nose and very inviting so you thought it was ready to drink. The palate however was beefy, lots of dark flavours and leathery tannin. Some pepper and spice, very rich, but so so dark and closed. Very savoury, needs a lot of time to rest.