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  • 2020 Château Cos d'Estournel

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    5/8/2024 - englishman's claret wrote:

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    As soon as the cork is pulled, the '20 Cos shows a reticent but characterful nose of boysenberry, pomegranate, and plum with a slightly spicy edge, gaining and astonishing aromatic generosity, voluptuous bordering on corpulent with an hour of air yet never becoming topheavy. Very cool and intense in the 2020 way, dry extract and plenty of tannin but with the acid to match. By 12 hours, the pomegranate coming tot he fore with an exotic spice element and shaved pencil. Finishing well. Muscled and fat simultaneously, like a sumo wrestler.

    95-96, drinking from around age 25

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  • 2008 Château Calon-Ségur

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    5/6/2024 - englishman's claret wrote: 92 Points

    The 2008 Calon Ségur is perhaps at its most appealing right out of the bottle, showing a powdery red-fruited, ashy, beef blood profile. There’s a little Benedictine-like herbaceousness and a pop of spicy capsicum. With air this clamps down, the red cherry transitioning to black cherry and cassis, refusing to offer the charms it did at its debut. Even then, its charms are on the slightly austere side, but I can’t lie - I like the firm hand of Calon Ségur. This should end up comfortably in the 92-93 range when it settles (in a decade).

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  • 2010 Château Saint-Pierre

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    5/5/2024 - englishman's claret wrote: 92 Points

    Opened at 1:30, this shows lots of dry extract; good depth of blackberry and mineral, the fruit expanding over an hour and a half to nicely surpass some oak-derived aromas present at the outset (espresso, bitter dark chocolate, and char). Relatively buttoned up in the mouth at first, though opening to show a nice natural sweetness with time, best in this regard the following morning. Medium plus in body, this matches its acidity relatively well but seems dominated by its tannin more than some other 2010s. Somewhat short on the finish. An important St Pierre looking back to the over-extraction of the 2009 and looking forward to the pitch-perfect poise of the 2015. 92-93 points

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  • Papies says:

    8/26/2021 2:49:00 AM - impressive Insta Feed we have to say!

  • vintage1949 says:

    3/1/2021 6:44:00 AM - Hi Marc, I looked over your cellar and you have a serious problem. A strange disease hits a wine cellar when one has too many bottles of Lafite in it. Something to do with the aggregate of corks, very mysterious. Grin However there is a simple solution-very simple. Simply send-let’s see I did a calculation-about 18 bottles to me eliminating the impact of so many corks that create a serious cork problem which includes corks slipping out, crumbling, and seepage. Am. I a good friend or what! Somebody else sent me the above as a joke. Thought you might get a kick out of it-or hey take is seriously. So how are you doing in Boston? If my damn health was better I would propose flying out for a day and visit with CT’ers such as yourself. I have no idea how old you are-but on this end old-grin 71. Happily I just finished up getting both shots for covid. This will actually allow me to visit with other CT’ers when I am in Florida next year. Can do that as we simply invite people to the condo. Do you have a passive cellar? I used air conditioning on my first cellar. We moved two houses from Lake Michigan. Burrr no conditioning needed. Just wanted to visit and say hi. Dave

  • Fred_Bo says:

    8/28/2017 6:39:00 AM - Hi Marc, Have you tried Certan-Giraud 1966? I'm a little torn between buying/not buying as I have never tasted it before the vineyard became Hosanna!

  • Rgentile says:

    4/22/2017 9:45:00 AM - Hi E.C. that was quite the night with the Fourrier wines, enjoyed the notes!

  • englishman's claret says:

    11/8/2016 8:44:00 AM - Looking forward to it Fred!

  • Fred_Bo says:

    11/7/2016 1:15:00 AM - Next time I'm in Boston, I'll make sure to bring a bottle!, Marc! Best regards Fred

  • Fred_Bo says:

    11/3/2016 10:57:00 PM - Hi, I live in CPH, Denmark. We're following each other on Instagram. :-)

  • Papies says:

    8/18/2016 8:57:00 AM - Hi Marc, re tastings in October I chhave caked BBR and the have nothing really that week Handford wines have a Meursault tasting on the 4th at 630pm in South Kensington. 95£ per person and its with James himself who is one of my favourite . It's less of a glam event and more of a circle of friends tasting but always very good.mikulski, Lafon and co wines. This is part of James tour of burgundy tastings. If you are interested pls email vicky at vicky@handford.net We are def going. Best A Below is the BBR link for you but not much to show in October . http://www.bbr.com/Categories/Events/c/events?q=%3Aevents-eventDate-asc%3AinStockFlag%3Atrue%3AeventMonth%3AOctober+2016&text=&facetPrefix=&pageSize=30#

  • Rupert says:

    8/18/2016 2:27:00 AM - Hi Englishman, for a huge range of grand claret by the bottle in London, try Hedonism just off Grosvenor Square (website www.hedonism.co.uk ). Sampler is excellent, but your choice would be more limited.

  • short and confused says:

    8/28/2015 10:14:00 PM - Thanks for the note! I would love to get together and drink with you guys.

  • Burgundy Al says:

    8/24/2015 9:18:00 AM - Bocuse or Troigros, that's a tough choice! I haven't been to Bocuse in a long time so can't fairly compare, but Troisgros is my favorite restaurant so would highly recommend it. Plus they are moving in a year or two from their current location, so a visit before then is certainly worthwhile.

  • partylikeakennedy says:

    6/9/2015 8:52:00 AM - OMG you're right! I've been negligent on the foulness lately. I promise to be better next time!!

  • gsquireh says:

    2/6/2015 8:07:00 PM - Thanks you your message. My passion for wine and my early years teaching and writing allow me to have fun with the tasting notes. I love your notes - especially the 02 Leflaive BBM, "This is crystalline minerality from Poseidon's spear luxuriating in the mouth ". I think that is the best thing I have ever read.

  • partylikeakennedy says:

    1/28/2015 10:00:00 AM - OMFG LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!! That is amazing. Ha ha! I am laughing so hard in my office at work right now. Thanks for sharing!!

  • DonalOB says:

    2/13/2014 11:54:00 PM - and we can open a bottle or two if you pass through Hong Kong.

  • cgrimes says:

    11/14/2013 6:29:00 PM - Sorry I didn't get back to you about coming to your tasting. I hope it went well. Life has been a bit crazy lately. Keep me in mind if you have any future CT gatherings.

  • Robbie K says:

    11/1/2013 2:28:00 AM - Took your advice Englishman's Claret and picked up a couple of the '09's. The '10's are due to arrive any day now. Interesting to hear that you found the '09 more typical in style. I will have to pop the corks on them both in the coming weeks to compare notes.

  • Robbie K says:

    10/23/2013 4:04:00 AM - I see you have a number of different vintages of Talbot. I have a couple of bottles of the 2010 on order. I've heard good things about it. Let me know your thoughts on it when you have tasted it.

  • RockinCabs says:

    9/4/2013 2:53:00 PM - Looks like you are having a great 2013 on your mission to drink good old Bordeaux. I would like to try and put together a Boston area offline this fall/winter. Would you like to help? I have a couple of folks I can recruit but need a group of 8 or so for a proper tasting event.

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