Originally Posted by
QRC3288
I agree with all your content especially in the above post about CX, except this point: EK is serving good or downright excellent vintages, while CX generally serves off years and way too young at that. There is zero comparison to how CX and EK approach wine...it shows on board. CX has a rather sorry approach to wine, which those of us who are captive to CX and love wine have been whinging about for years.
Bad years in term of those first growth, not bad in general.
The Haut-Brion 2004 can be bought today for less than the future of 2016 or 2017. If that is not a bad year, what else can be said.
EK bad is still better than anything out there by a long shot. My point is they only bought them for the prestige factor. For probably the same price, they can get quilceda creek and it will blow these off-vintage first growth out of the water.