A Wine Dinner that’s a Night to Remember

The private wine dinner at Longchamps at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mansingh Road, New Delhi on November 29, 2007, was a night to remember. Most of Bordeaux’s first growths from the host’s extraordinary private collection were served at the dinner. The wines were excellent vintages from Chateau Margaux, Lafitte, Latour, La Mission, Haut Brion, and Mouton Rothschild.

Tasting notes culled from some of the world’s best and most distinguished wine writers framed for the benefit of guests

The Ambassador of France to India couldn’t have put it better when he toasted the hosts at the end of the evening by saying, ” There are very few people who are skilled, knowledgeable and generous enough to put together such a wine dinner. Certainly very few people in France are able to do so and describe the wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy this way.”
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Chocolate confection teamed with Ch d’ Yquem
The wines from Bordeaux served at different tables with the five-course meal were:
Château Lafite Rothschild, 1985
Château Latour, 1975
Château Margaux 1997
Château Mouton Rothschild, 1975
Château Haut-Brion, 1970
Château La Mission Haut-Brion, 1991
Château d’ Yquem, 1988
Three other wines served were Champagne, Tio Pepe Palomino Fino Sherry and Gewurztraminer Grand Cru Saering Domaines Schlumberger, 2000