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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.6 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 24 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by TashNYC on 12/17/2023 & rated 91 points: With roast chicken and over a couple of days. (99 views) | | | Tasted by TashNYC on 4/22/2023 & rated 90 points: Red fruit, cassis, tar, licorice. Tasty with the roast, herbal chicken but not as open as other bottles. Perhaps it needed a shake and/or short decant?
Drink now but has time, too. (195 views) | | | Tasted by TashNYC on 2/27/2022 & rated 91 points: Delicious wine. Notes of red fruit, cassis, tar, licorice and tannins on the finish. Good with our herbal, roasted chicken. A little better with duck, I think. Might even have the heft to go with lamb, next time.
Drink now. (309 views) | | | Tasted by TashNYC on 10/29/2021 & rated 92 points: Red fruit, cassis, tar, herbs. Delicious with the slow-roasted duck. (328 views) | | | Tasted by TashNYC on 6/7/2021 & rated 92 points: This wine has finally arrived! Drinking well with no decant, with notes of red fruit, cassis, tobacco, tar, herbs and some tannins. Delicious with the duck pate (which we had back in 3/2015 with this wine as well) and with the slow-roasted, herbal French duck. (343 views) | | | Tasted by SoCal on 1/22/2021: This wine needs a lot of air to open up. When it does it is a very serviceable food wine with basic Bordeaux flavors. Drink and enjoy. (400 views) | | | Tasted by pinoteer on 1/25/2019 & rated 90 points: Takes a while in the decanter, but classic-leaning Bordeaux here. Good freshness and noticeable tannins, unfortunately dry and coating much of the mouth. Probably another 5 years, at least, in these bottles, but the tannins will likely not round out with further aging.
Correcting...after 4 hours the tannins are nice and round, and this is a fabulous wine. I'm upping my original 88 score to 90, and a "like." (661 views) | | | Tasted by prof b on 6/14/2015 & rated 90 points: decanted for about three hours at this point. This wine has opened up and seems to be in a very nice spot. The dark fruits intermingle well with the blood and iron I expect from Bordeaux. Moderate acidity complements fruit well. CT says I have another bottle; I'll have to dig through the cellar soon. (1642 views) | | | Tasted by TashNYC on 3/7/2015 & rated 91 points: Dinner at Ali and Adele's in Princeton (Princeton, NJ): At Ali & Adele's House (Princeton): This was decanted when we arrived -- and drank best 4 hours later. Was very tight for 2+ hours, then some lovely notes of cherry, stone, lead pencil and a little tobacco on the finish.
Best with the duck pate (with foie gras). Delicious on its own but tighter than it should be. These need 2-3 more years, I think, to drink well. Not as showy as the 2003 vintage (2-3 years ago) but lots of potential. HOLD. (1710 views) | | | Tasted by gbauer on 12/28/2014: Not bad. A little short and tannic. Not sure if this is getting better or worse. (1694 views) | | | Tasted by pinoteer on 6/13/2014 & rated 87 points: Just OK. Tasted best after about 4 hours in the decanter. I'll leave the last couple bottles lie for a few years and see what happens. Not a good QPR given that the Haut Bergey that I had the next night was so much better (same price range). (1765 views) | | | Tasted by stevenrcagle on 4/27/2014 & rated 88 points: Just Ok. Dry and not too much fruit. Agree with other reviewers time to drink these up. Did not take notes (1565 views) | | | Tasted by pinoteer on 11/28/2013 & rated 89 points: I opened another one of these up last night, as I hadn't had one in some time. PnVnD, but didn't give it enough time decanting. This wine still drinks very nicely. Didn't take formal notes, but my recollections are that the nose was a little reluctant (could be the limited decant time) and the finish was a bit short. Otherwise, a very serviceable wine. With more time, I might have gone a point higher. (1171 views) | | | Tasted by AMM3RD on 11/21/2012 & rated 89 points: A very nice effort; pleasant quaffer where the fruit started to fade after 2+ hours. Dark fruit and balanced tannins (slightly dusty). Drink over the next year or two at most...AM (1582 views) | | | Tasted by jonphillips on 11/15/2012 & rated 87 points: Thin and a strange ripe note (1952 views) | | | Tasted by AMM3RD on 10/5/2012 & rated 91 points: This wine took an hour to open, so I recommend some air. Somewhat muted nose of red fruit. Really nice Cab fruit with a long (slightly dusty) finish. One of the best QPR Bordeaux's I've had. Drink over the next 3-5 years...AM (1584 views) | | | Tasted by pinoteer on 5/27/2012 & rated 89 points: Drank this over 2 days, argon'd overnight. This wine is really coming into its own. Second night lots of dark fruit and licorice, a little oak. Quite delicious, with nice acidity and soft tannins. Limited finish, or the score could improve some. (1450 views) | | | Tasted by gbauer on 5/23/2011: Some spice and dark red fruit on the nose, plum. In the mouth, balanced, somewhat modern, but showing well now. (1882 views) | | | Tasted by AMM3RD on 9/27/2009 & rated 87 points: This wine has lost some fruit since the first time I tasted it. Popped and poured at an Italian restaurant. Dark fruits on the nose and palate. Finish was pretty dry and dusty, with a little veggie note. Enjoyable wine, but not extraordinary. Decent QPR, would buy again...AMM (1791 views) | | | Tasted by z_willus_d on 1/4/2009 & rated 89 points: 2+ hr decant @58F. Dark red color; has a way of coating the glass sides on swirl with perfect evenness & symmetry. The nose seems to be hiding behind the covers in bed; it hints at purple flowers, wet stones, red currants, cassis, and field blackberries -- very nice but not intense. On the palate, this really shines; it's a monstrous Bordeaux and really attacks the palate front the first; heavy bodied without any "clunkiness." Wild blackberries dominate early on, then cassis commands in the middle where ultra juicy red currant / creme de cassis flavors advance in a super focused way that's really saying a lot to me about this vintage. After this, mouth-drying tannins rule the palate, bringing with them an accoutrement of very nice floral rose-petals, saddle-leather, and a large dose of blackberry syrup dead center on the back of the tongue. This is one of the better budget Bordeaux I've had in recent years, and I think it will certainly improve w/ some bottle-age, picking up additional complexities and hammering out some off-angle kinks to make for a more polished mouthfeel and improved refinement. The finish could be longer/stronger and is really the only thing holding this back from a higher score for me. Here's hoping that improves too. 89-90 pts now. (2196 views) | | | Tasted by gbauer on 12/10/2008: I opened one of these because I noticed that WS gave it an 84 and said "drink now." On the nose, a little bit of heat and a lot of fresh berries. A little bit of spice and minerality, as well -- showing more and better on the nose than I would have expected. In the mouth, a lot of tannin, but there is a fair amount of fruit as well. Dies in the middle and finishes short. Not great, but better than 84. I guess we'll see where these go... (1974 views) | | | Tasted by AMM3RD on 4/10/2008 & rated 92 points: 92+ This wine is young and delicious! Red + Black fruits galore, full bodied, with wonderful tannins. Minerality will develop in time. This wine will be a stunner in years to come. I also loved the '03 of this wine. Going to buy more. Drink over the next 10 years easy...AMM (2315 views) |
| 2005 Château Haut-GardèreOwned by the same family of Chateau de Fieuzal, this property sits right across the street.
The wine is typical of the area, with aromas of wet stones, gravel and tobacco. Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
History of 1855 Bordeaux Classification
"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanGraves Vins de Graves (Conseil des Vins de Graves) - Read more about Pessac Leogan Graves and its winesPessac-Léognan Pessac-Leognan reds:
Grape Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Soil: Predominantly gravel and sandy rock, with varying proportions of clay and sandstone
Surface Area: 1,491 ha
Pessac-Leognan whites:
Grape Varieties: Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon
Soil: Gravel and rocks covered with sand, sandstone, and clay
Surface Area: 275 ha |
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