Great Vintage Wine Challenge "CHATEAU TALBOT 1982"

In "The Story of Art for Wine," I wrote about how the art of omamori for wine came into being.
The wine that inspired me was a Chateau Talbot 1982. Chateau Talbot is a 4th class chateau in Bordeaux, but its reputation is often said to be underestimated. The 1982 was a great year, scoring 96 points in Parker points*.

*Parker Points: A rating system devised by renowned American wine critic Robert Parker, in which 100 points is a perfect score, and 96 points is a very high score.

The challenge

Around the summer of 2020, I made an Omamori_art of the energy of Chateau Talbot 1982, and a wine lover friend of mine was so amused that he wrapped the art around various wines and compared with art/without art, and told me that the wines were affected and changed their flavors without exception.
He then invited me to a second wine party and had me drink several different wines.

One of them was Art wrapped around a Chateau Bernadotte 2004, which I found to be very similar in flavor to the Chateau Talbot 1982. However, since no one had ever tasted Chateau Talbot 1982 other than myself, I wanted to verify if this was my "personal impression" or if others felt the same way, so I organized this challenge project. That is, I again wrapped the art of Chateau Talbot 1982 around Chateau Bernadotte 2004 to see if I could reproduce it as close to Chateau Talbot 1982 as possible.

Chateau Bernadotte 2004, a wine similar to Chateau Talbot 1982, is located on the left bank of the Gironde River in the region known as Bordeaux Haut-Médoc, and is in regional proximity to the village of Saint-Julien, where Chateau Talbot is located.

The grape mix is 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 3% Cabernet Franc for Chateau Talbot.
Chateau Bernadotte does not disclose the composition ratio, but it is composed of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot as the main components and a small amount of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot mixed in, typical of a Bordeaux. The composition of the wines is also similar to that of a typical Bordeaux.
In other words, if the grape type mixing ratio and terroir (natural conditions such as soil and climate) are close, it is easy to approximate them.

For this reason, it is easy to understand that Chateau Bernadotte can approach the flavor of Chateau Talbot.
In this article, we will further examine how the energy of Chateau Talbot 1982 changes when added to Chateau Lanessan 2016, which is also located in Bordeaux Haut-Médoc and whose grape composition is very similar to Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Petit Verdot.

Experimental Methods:

Two bottles of the same type of wine were prepared, one bottle was left unadulterated and the other was wrapped with a Château Talbot 1982 energy-emitting charm art and left for a certain period of time, then both bottles and the Château Talbot 1982 were opened and drunk at the same time. The wines were then compared to see if the differences in taste and flavor could be detected by several people.

The wines were compared:
Chateau Talbot 1982
Chateau Bernadotte 2004 (2 bottles (with/without the art))
Chateau Lanessan 2016 (2 bottles (with/without the art))
 

↑Left to right: Chateau Talbot 1982, Chateau Bernadotte 2004, Chateau Lanessan 2016

The omamori art used:
G0003-002 CHATEAU TALBOT 1982

Number of participants in the test: 9

*Parker Points: A rating system devised by renowned American wine critic Robert Parker, in which 100 points is a perfect score, and 96 points is a very high score.

Verification work

Firstly, Château Talbot 1982 is a wine that is more than 40 years old, so it is possible that the contents are rotten and undrinkable (bouchonnet). Also, I drank Château Talbot 1982 in the past, in 2013 and 2014, which is about 10 years ago. So it is quite possible that the flavours I remember are different from the Château Talbot 1982 of today, some 10 years later. So our preliminary expectation was that it would be difficult to find similar flavours of Château Talbot 1982 to those of Château Bernadotte 2004 art rolled up, unless the conditions were right.
 
So, to start the tasting, We started opening the Château Bernadotte 2004 with and without art we, then continued with the Château Talbot 1982. Sure enough, the cork of Château Talbot 1982 was half rotten, the sommelier knife screw went in but the cork broke in three pieces, and the first time, two of them were pulled out, but one remained inside. Then turned the screw in again and lifted it gently and slowly and successfully uncorked the bottle. This is largely down to the skill of my friend who was in charge of the corkscrewing.
Then the three wines were poured into glasses to start the tasting.
 

Tasting results:

1. Chateau Bernadotte 2004 and Chateau Talbot 1982
First, when comparing Chateau Bernadotte 2004 with art (A) and without art (B), all participants agreed that the Chateau Bernadotte 2004 with art had a clear change in flavor with advanced maturity.
Next, when comparing Château Talbot 1982 (C) and Chateau Bernadotte 2004 with art (A), the flavors immediately after opening the bottle were so similar that it was almost impossible to tell the difference. The wines then opened and changed in flavor over time, but the difference between (A) and (B) was greater than the difference between (A) and (C), and this remained true throughout.
The wines opened up, again, with Chateau Talbot opening up the most, and the difference in flavor between it and Chateau Bernadotte, which wrapped up the art, gradually opened up.

2. Chateau Lanessan 2016
Next, Château Lanessan 2016 was compared with art (D) and without art (E), and all participants agreed that there was still a clear change in flavor with more advanced aging. In the comparison with Château Talbot 1982 (C) and Château Lanessan 2016 with art (D), the difference between D and C was greater than the difference between D and E, although D and C did not reach the same level of similarity.

From the above, it was a success to prove by several witnesses that the original goal of wrapping Chateau Bernadotte 2004 with Chateau Talbot 1982's omamori art would result in a flavor very similar to that of Chateau Talbotte 1982.