2010 Château L'Eglise-Clinet

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 96.2 points

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  5/8/2024 - grapenomad wrote: 93 Points

  Incredibly tight at first, so needed to wait about 3-4 hours to get a glimpse of what this offers. Deep ruby red in the glass. Unmistakably Right Bank on the nose, with the dark fruit dominating the whole profile. Some baking spices, vanilla, hazelnut and earthy tones in there as well. Palate is silky smooth, almost too smooth for a Bordeaux, but I love it. Ripe tannins, high acidity, balance in check. Long, sweet-fruited finish with a hint of graphite. Approachable now, but will deliver for the years to come.

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  4/29/2024 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 Points

  It is possible to mix the sublime with the ridiculous, as this wine shows. The sublime was the wine itself. Something of a wine eruption when opened and poured into glass, it also lived happily for 3 days in decanter (how did I not guzzle it before then? Weak gene pool, perhaps. I blame my parents).
  
  The ridiculous was the enormous eruption from my nether regions shortly after I opened this. The expression 'to take one's ease' really cannot do justice to the prodigious quantity of excreta that I did. Visiting the thunderbox is closer to the mark. Craps like this can be fantastic things, leaving one feeling light headed and triumphant; plumbers and sewerage workers doubtless feel rumblings of imminent PTSD at the idea of having to grapple with my efforts.
  
  My bottle, despite a cork in wizard condition was a little more developed than other tasters have noted but it was still fresh enough. Tannins were supple and approaching resolution. A wonderful example of Pomerol. I confess that I have a preference for the more elegant expressions from the other bank but this is damned good stuff and a great poo deserved to be matched with a sensational wine.
  
  I guess one must turn to Patti Smith's magnificent album 'Easter' and the high-octane riffing track '25th Floor', a song that seems in part to be about having sex in a high-rise loo, whilst celebrating female sexuality, with a wonderful spoken word part including the memorable statements:
  
  We explore the men's room.
  We don't give a shit.
  Ladies' lost electricity;
  Take vows inside of it.
  
  The transformation of waste
  Is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man.
  Man being the chosen alloy,
  He must be reconnected - via shit, at all cost.
  
  YEA-AH!

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  12/31/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Taken to a friend’s house to celebrate to celebrate NYE. Incredibly concentrated boysenberry and blueberry with a long finish. Some plum and emerging green pepper. Superb balance and up there with bottles of 2000 Trotanoy we have had recently (96-97). However, unlike the 2000 Trotany which is in prime time this bottle of 2010 L’Eglise Clinet seems too young and would be better in a number of years. 97/100

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  1/14/2023 - jviz wrote: 98 Points

  This is up there with the great wines of my favorite vintage in this century. Densely concentrated and deeply pitched, you have boysenberry and tar, pencil shavings and ash. Finish lasting for minutes. A fabulous bordeaux to hold. But you might leave it alone for 2-3 decades before it’s really ready.

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  11/6/2022 - ubercuvee wrote:

  Big, intense & super primary. Morello cherry the dominant note. Really young, probably best 2035+

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