In 2008, one of the members of my wine tasting group, Bill Schallert, a fine wine importer/distributor with Youngs Marketplace, alerted me to a new Bordeaux dinner that he was helping to host in Seattle.  It didn’t take much arm twisting for us to join the dinner.

In the first year, January 19, 2009, the dinner was held at Seattle’s Columbia Tower Club, and the guests of honor were Jean Charles Cazes of Chateau Lynch Bages, and Lillian Barton of Chateau Leoville Barton and Langoa Barton.

The focus that year was the new release of the 2006 vintage.  Unfortunately, my memory doesn’t serve well enough to recall my wine of the night or any specifics about the wines, but for the record, these were the wines that were served:

• 2006 Blanc de Lynch Bages
• 2006 Chateau Ormes de Pez
• 2006 Chateau Langoa Barton
• 2006 Lynch Bages
• 2006 Chateau Leoville Barton
• 2006 Chateau Cos d’Estournel
• 2003 Chateau Lynch Bages
• 2000 Chateau Cos d’Estournel
• 1999 Chateau Langoa Barton
• 1998 Chateau Cos d’Estournel
• 1996 Chateau Lynch Bages
• 1995 Chateau Leoville Barton
• 2002 Suduiraut Sauternes

What I do very specifically remember about that dinner is that as soon as it was over, I was very much ready to do it all over again the next year!