Château Olivier: Tasting & Drinking
It is interesting to look back and review the progress that has been made over the last few decades at Château Olivier, especially when the wines are placed against their peers from nearby properties in Pessac-Léognan. Clive Coates once wrote of the estate’s grand potential, espousing in Grands Vins (University of California Press, 1995) that the “depth of the 1990 and the finesse of the 1992” promised great things for the future, and that with further improvements in the chai “one can but shudder with excitement” at the prospect. With the benefit of hindsight it does not seem to me that Olivier has ever fulfilled this early promise. Some vintages, white and red, are very good, whereas others are merely good, but certainly not challenging the greatest efforts coming from elsewhere within the appellation.
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