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 Vintage2005 Label 1 of 80 
TypeRed
ProducerChâteau d'Agassac (web)
VarietyRed Bordeaux Blend
Designationn/a
Vineyardn/a
CountryFrance
RegionBordeaux
SubRegionMédoc
AppellationHaut-Médoc
UPC Code(s)026612502077, 3760142051045, 3760142051052

Drinking Windows and Values
Drinking window: Drink between 2011 and 2017 (based on 19 user opinions)
Wine Market Journal quarterly auction price: See d`Agassac on the Wine Market Journal.

Community Tasting History

Community Tasting Notes (average 88.5 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 92 notes) - hiding notes with no text

 Tasted by Julian Marshall on 9/1/2020 & rated 90 points: I forgot about this bottle but it was still going strong. The cloying fruit I noticed the last time, back in 2014, has settled down and the elegance I was looking for has taken over. Classic tastes of blackberries and blackcurrants with a little creamy patch mid-palate and a decent finish. It has lost a little sparkle so probably best to drink it in the next couple of years. One of the rare 2005s not to suffer from excessive tannins. (3558 views)
 Tasted by wicozani on 12/16/2019 & rated 88 points: Reports of the Count d'Agassac's death are premature, even if the cork broke in half and gave a battle in coming out. A bright ruby in the glass, with nary a touch of bricking. A very nice nose of red currant, earth, forest floor, herbs and dried flowers. Served at the suggested 58-62 degrees fahrenheit, and this was just fine, with good acidity and concentration. We can rest easier over the fate of the last few remaining bottles. (2188 views)
 Tasted by dkfinancial on 12/15/2019 & rated 85 points: She’s dead, Jim. Fruit is gone and it’s now tobacco leaf & berry skins after pressing. Note to self; don’t age a drink-early claret like this. (2070 views)
 Tasted by oaadumm on 6/28/2019: Would be better before. (2473 views)
 Tasted by Raage on 12/25/2018 & rated 88 points: Du fruit, de la fraicheur, de la maturité, on passe un bon moment, mais rien de mémorable, ni en défaut, ni en magie. Un Bordeaux assez net, plutot gourmand, sans aristocratie! (2992 views)
 Tasted by Axelpeter on 12/16/2018 & rated 92 points: FamEss Weihn Ay) MAGNUM- Schwarzrot mit leichtem Stich ins Ziegelrot am Rand. Alles da: Frucht und Säure, Tannine und Textur. Alles gut balanciert, unkompliziert und schön zu trinken, allein und zum Essen. Nicht so sehr Sexappeal, aber ganz solide Substanz. Gute Länge. Absolut reif in der Magnum (in der Normalflasche vielleicht schon etwas müder?) Wunderbar. Ein echtes Alleskönner. Großer Applaus von der ganzen Runde. Trinken, vielleicht noch 2-3 Jahre auf dem Niveau in der Magnum.. (1590 views)
 Tasted by phil the agony on 8/24/2018 & rated 89 points: Ouvert vers 15h et mis en carafe.La douce qui a ouvert la bouteille et le bouchon était pas mal sec.
Robe légèrement tuilée.En bouche,ça goûte les mûres,les prunes Italiennes et les cerises.
L'alcool est present et les tannins sont encore bien là.Le bois est fondu par contre.
Pas le plus long certe mais c'est bien fait pour 25$.
89 pts. (2213 views)
 Tasted by erosen55 on 8/16/2018 & rated 92 points: Although I have followed cellartracker for a long time, this is the first time that I have been compelled to write a review. The first and only time that I had previously tasted the the 2005 D'agassac was in 2010, and found the wine at that time to be disjointed and rough. However, having had a second bottle last night, the wine has smoothed out to be a beautiful wine. Admittedly, it does not have the intensity and purity of the best Bordeaux wines, but still is elegant with lovely fruit. A 92 at the least. It makes me hopeful about other, more highly regarded 2005 Bordeaux wines still untouched. (1574 views)
 Tasted by wicozani on 7/27/2017 & rated 85 points: Time has not been good to this bottle. Decanted one hour prior to pairing with grilled NY strip loin steaks. A medium+ dark ruby in the glass, the nose features blue and black fruits and oak spices. Medium body on the palate, taste uninspiring, with middling acidity and a short, clipped finish. This was better at 4 years of age versus 12 now. Not sure if really on downhill slope, in a "dumb" phase, or a sole bottle issue. More bottles to find out. (3819 views)
 Tasted by Raynor on 3/15/2017 & rated 88 points: Bon bordeaux rouge. Beau fruit et bon niveau d'acidité. Peu de concentration et de richesse toutefois pour un 2005. (3301 views)
 Tasted by millesime66 on 1/25/2017 & rated 90 points: Fidèle à la réputation de la plupart des vins de cette appellation et de ce millésime: Tannins importants encore un peu rudes après 11 ans, mais beaucoup de fruit noir et de longueur en bouche. (3209 views)
 Tasted by poste244 on 3/26/2016 & rated 90 points: Ma dernière bouteille et la meilleure!
Nez fin très typé avec des notes de cuir. En bouche les tanins sont fondus mais l'ensemble est encore bien vivant et d'une belle fraîcheur. Un très beau Bordeaux qui a accompagné magistralement l’agneau pascal. (5683 views)
 Tasted by Viking 61 on 1/9/2016 & rated 91 points: Great effort in a great vintage from this Chateau. Drinking great after hours and days - so some more time in the bottle but not much more. Great QPR. (5162 views)
 Tasted by Viking 61 on 12/26/2015 & rated 89 points: Drinking nice now. Good classic Bordeaux. (3761 views)
 Tasted by pot20 on 8/30/2015 & rated 89 points: Dernière bouteille. Aurait pu encore tenir quelques années. Le fruit encore bien en place, le bois fondu, du corps et une belle allonge. (4568 views)
 Tasted by ekallio on 4/22/2015: Excellent in every way, the kind of Bordeaux I really like. Classic mouthfeel, good core of blackcurrant fruit, ripe but still unmistakeably left bank Bdx. (5060 views)
 Tasted by nadecesse on 4/3/2015 & rated 89 points: Sans note. 89-90 (3334 views)
 Tasted by dcwino on 2/24/2015 & rated 91 points: As Francois Mauss likes to say, small wines in big vintages and big wines in small vintages. It is also fascinating that just like a village Burgundy, it lacks the finesse, complexity and layered fruits. Nevertheless this is a pleasant surprise. Classic left bank nose, mostly red fruits, plum, also a hint of cassis, leather, lead pencil, cedar, caramel and earth. Excellent concentration, sweet ripe red fruit driven palate impression, nice density and texture, mineral, bright acidity and good finish. For my palate, this is really youthful and will require additional five years of cellaring to bring out more tertiary notes. It doesn’t posse the refined yet expressive nose of the top 05 classified growth but what an impressive effort. I high recommend. (3868 views)
 Tasted by pot20 on 2/15/2015 & rated 89 points: Sur son plateau, il a tout ce dont on peu s'attendre d'un excellent Cru Bourgeois. (3231 views)
 Tasted by Jeff Leve on 1/28/2015 & rated 88 points: Medium/full bodied, with a nose of tobacco, earth, forest, blackberry and floral notes. The nose is a little better than the palate. There is freshness and even a bite of crispness to the fruit and a hint of rusticity to the tannins. This blend of 53.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and 1.5% Cabernet Franc is drinking fine today. (3743 views)
 Tasted by Jettoy1992 on 1/19/2015 & rated 91 points: - Garnet color with medium forming legs - Fantastic (2483 views)
 Tasted by Vmaster007 on 1/17/2015 & rated 87 points: Très bon rapport qualité prix. (2415 views)
 Tasted by pot20 on 10/17/2014 & rated 89 points: Excellent présentement. Belle complexité, une certaine ampleur en bouche avec un beau fondu du bois et des tannins. A encore de belles années. (3446 views)
 Tasted by mat600 on 10/4/2014 & rated 91 points: Cru bourgeois exceptionnel, il s'avère ce soir à point avec de la fondue. Au nez, nous avons de la canelle et des fruits rouges et noirs et petites baies tels que le bleuet. En bouche, c'est équilibré avec une complexité étonnante. Les tannins s'estompent en bouche avec un bois intégré. Excellent dans ce millésime. J'ai goûté dans le millésime 2000,2005,2006,2008 et cela me confirme que ce vin est étonnant dans les millésimes les plus réussis dans le médoc. 91 sur 100. Dépêchez-vous d'aller chercher le 2010 encore disponible dans certaines SAQ. (2860 views)
 Tasted by Frank&Steph on 7/21/2014 & rated 89 points: trèes beau vin avec encore quelques années devant lui (3611 views)
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (6/20/2008)
(Ch d'Agassac Haut-Médoc Red) Subscribe to see review text.
i-WineReview.com, Report 11: Bourdeaux Crus Bourgeois (4/1/2008)
(Chateau D'Agassac Haut-Médoc) Subscribe to see review text.
i-WineReview.com, Featured Monthly Tasting - 2005 Bordeaux (1/1/2008)
(Chateau D'Agassac Chateau D'Agassac Cru Bourgeois Superieur Haut-Medoc) Subscribe to see review text.
By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, May/June 2006, IWC Issue #126
(Chateau D'Agassac Haut Medoc) Subscribe to see review text.
By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (4/13/2006)
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Château d'Agassac

Producer website - Read More about Chateau d'Agassac

2005 Château d'Agassac

Blend: 50% Merlot, 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc

Red Bordeaux Blend

Red 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.com

Bordeaux

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 Rimmerman

Médoc

Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) - Read More about the Medoc

VdB

The eight precisely defined appellations of the whole of the Médoc (from Blanquefort Brook to the north of the Bordeaux built-up area, almost to the Pointe de Grave) may claim the Médoc appellation. But there is also a specific territory in the north of the peninsula which produces exclusively wines with this appellation. In the great majority, the Médocs come from the north of the peninsula. The great individuality of this region is that the number of vines has increased more recently here than elsewhere, apart from a few isolated spots where vines have grown for many years. Today, the size of the small estate has brought about the development of a powerful co-operative movement. Four co-operatives out of five belong to the group called Unimédoc which ensures aging, bottling and marketing a large proportion of their wines.

Haut-Médoc

Read more about Haut Medoc and its wines Long-standing fame The legally created division into Médoc and Haut-Médoc dates from 1935. But as long ago as 1815 a Chartrons broker, whose word carried weight, spoke of great red wines in the Haut-Médoc, so recognizing the high quality successfully achieved by this region's growers in the eighteenth century. The same Bordeaux broker revealed that the business world of the Chartrons and the great Bordeaux proprietors had established a sort of league-table of the parishes in which the vine-growing communes of today's Haut-Médoc appellation showed up well.

The Haut-Médoc appellation stretches over some thirty seven miles from north to south, from Saint-Seurin de Cadourne to Blanquefort. Within this area, certain zones produce wines exclusively with the Haut-Médoc appellation. It has terroirs of remarkable quality. And although we may note a certain predominance of layers of gravel (essentially Garonne gravel) from the Quaternary, all these sites are characterized by their wide diversity. Today in the southernmost communes of the appellation, the suburbs of Bordeaux, numerous vineyards which existed at the beginning of the twentieth century have disappeared, victims of urban expansion. But the vines live on... because man has retained his devotion to them.

The astonishing variety of different terroirs, the result of the very extent of the area, explains the diversity of Haut-Médoc wines, a fact which is rare within one and the same appellation.
But, over and above the differences, linked to this mosaic of climatic and geological influence, all these wines have the same family traits of character.
Alert and lively, full-bodied without being too powerful, and harmoniously balanced, they acquire a rare bouquet over the years.

In order to have the right to the Haut-Médoc appellation of controlled origin, red wines must:
- come from the communes of Blanquefort, Le Taillan, Parempuyre, Le Pian, Ludon, Macau, Arsac, Labarde, Cantenac, Margaux, Avensan, Castelnau, Soussans, Arcins, Moulis, Listrac, Lamarque, Cussac, Saint-Laurent de Médoc, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Sauveur, Cissac, Saint-Estèphe, Vertheuil, Saint-Seurin de Cadourne "excluding all the parcels situated on recent alluvium and sand on impermeable subsoils",
- satisfy precise production conditions : grape-varieties (Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet-Franc, Carmenère, Merlot Noir, Petit Verdot, Cot or Malbec), minimum of sugar (178 grammes - 6.27 oz. - per litre of must) degree (an acquired 10°5) base yield (48 hectolitres per hectare).

 
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