20-25 year respective / '85 vs '94

[Frederick Blais]

This last week, I had Taylor's and Graham's 1985. For the last 20 years, I've always overlooked Taylor's and favored Graham's. To the point I've never put a Taylor in my cellar.

This time, I definitively prefered the Taylor's. Graham's is denser, sweeter, but simpler, while the Taylor's offered layers of complexity both on nose and palet and lingering finish. That said, none came close of the Fonseca I had last October.

I was never able to taste the 85 in their prime youth, the first I had was Warre's in 1995. I feel that both years showed a lot of fruit and flesh, showing off young wines that seduced the market by their drinkability in their youth. But I never felt deep backbone in most of them, of course there are always exceptions. On the long run, I'd favour 94, the wines have more concentrations and more potential to develop better complexity than the 85.

[Eric Ifune]

Actually, there are other forms of chromatography which do not involve vaporization. Even then, it's oft times done with a vacuum which doesn't alter the compounds. Chromatography was originally done with paper and now commonly with gels which use gravity or absorption to separate compounds.

[Tom Archer]

Even then, it's oft times done with a vacuum which doesn't alter the compounds.

Only the simplest and stablest organic compounds can be vaporised - the vast majority break down.