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| Community Tasting Notes (average 85.4 pts. and median of 85 pts. in 55 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by rikipedia on 11/5/2021 & rated 86 points: Med+ garnet to a bricking rim, the bouquet is undergrowth, cedar with some cola notes, dried thyme, toasted rosemary and ripe black fruits.
A firm lemon-edged acidity on entry, the wine is cool and chalky. Fresh blackcurrant to blackcurrant leaf, tilled soil, the wine is medium-bodied with a touch of spice.
The wine feels burly yet lacks a bit of mid-palate depth, making the wine a little skeletal and without the fruit to flesh out the frame. A little underwhelming, the finish is medium with a tarry, herbal back-palate.
Old school claret that feels a little lean especially given 2005 vintage. (588 views) | | | Tasted by rikipedia on 7/16/2020 & rated 86 points: Classic Bordeaux bouquet with cedar chest, pencil shavings, blackcurrant, a splash of wild herb, dried thyme.
Palate is more austere than expected with puckering tannins and a tar-like texture - almost Barolo-like- with fresh lemon acidity and old-school claret flavours: leather polish, earth, herbal. It feels a little upright and leaner than I expected for 2005. Would have liked more flesh to coat the bones. Perhaps drying out? not as good as the previous bottle from 2018. (971 views) | | | Tasted by rikipedia on 3/29/2018 & rated 88 points: Mid garnet to brick red. Aromas of earth, savoury notes, forest fruits, oak spices. Fairly full-bodied with grippy texture and firm, sturdy tannins. Fresh lemon acidity, long finish with flavours of dark chocolate (70%), blackcurrant and fresh spices. A fairly serious wine with decent concentration and high tannin quality of 2005 vintage. Just enough fruit to work with the structure. Perhaps could resolve further? (963 views) | | | Tasted by johneagle on 6/5/2013 & rated 80 points: Considerably better than every previous bottle of this, thought that's not saying much. The 01 was good and I bought this expecting something better, given the vintage. This was the last bottle and was almost tolerable, though far from exciting. Some sourish dark berry fruit and the tannins just beginning to soften a little, though not integrated together. Judgement raised from mediocre to very ordinary. (7068 views) | | | Tasted by psi on 7/25/2012 & rated 84 points: Lacking fruit. Drink up (8021 views) | | | Tasted by psi on 7/17/2012 & rated 84 points: Lacking fruit. Big disappointment considering the vintage. (7715 views) | | | Tasted by chbeaumont on 6/16/2012 & rated 84 points: This has declined. Rather scrawny, lean feel; pinched finish. Weedy & not very good. Safest to drink up soon. (7722 views) | | | Tasted by dexterng on 2/14/2012 & rated 84 points: Standard left bank.Nose has cinnamon. Blackcurrent, oak and a bit of vanilla in taste. I also find slight green pepper in taste which i hate. Overall not bad .and good qpr. (7978 views) | | | Tasted by temchugh on 12/21/2011 & rated 85 points: Not bad. (3664 views) | | | Tasted by chbeaumont on 8/18/2011 & rated 88 points: Strong colour; fresh blackcurrant, a little fuzzy, fruitcake, warm; some tannins remain combined with refreshing acidity gives this a youthful feel; vigour on a lean, clean but attractive long finish. (3469 views) | | | Tasted by macker100 on 8/14/2011 & rated 86 points: Lighter ruby color. Nose has a light touch, flowers, minerals. Tart raspberries on palate with some cherry plums and touch of oak. Very acidic, somewhat watered down on medium finish. There are better values to be found in vintage 2005 (fronsac). (3464 views) | | | Tasted by psi on 4/9/2011 & rated 85 points: Oh well. My father bought a case of Camensac '04 for 4 Euro less per bottle than the Liversan '05. He made the clever choice of the two of us. While the Camensac easily merits 89 points, the Liversan is a solid everyday wine... And is as such unspecial. (4004 views) | | | Tasted by pjaines on 3/21/2011: Pretty solid, dependable everyday wine. Brisk tannins with a tiny green streak running through it. Medium bodied. Its not going to get any better so start drinking now. Decent if somewhat dull. (4049 views) | | | Tasted by temchugh on 2/11/2011 & rated 83 points: An austere wine. Good tannins. Not much fruit. Hints of tobacco. (4067 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 12/21/2010 & rated 84 points: Not many notes because the wine is not worth a book. Basic Haut Medoc. Supple easy and friendly. Red and black berries. Enough tannin to last for several years more. (4257 views) | | | Tasted by johneagle on 9/13/2010 & rated 75 points: Not exciting, given the vintage. After a while it softened and opened a little but very unspecial. (4656 views) | | | Tasted by vinzen cellar on 7/14/2010 & rated 87 points: Good expensive Bourdeax (5132 views) | | | Tasted by TexasBob on 5/29/2010 & rated 83 points: Lots of thick ripe black fruit on the nose. Serviceable table wine - excellent tannins and solid structure, but it lacks the complexity and smoothness to offer anything other than a wash-down level of utility and pleasure. (5162 views) | | | Tasted by Bderge on 4/18/2010 & rated 84 points: Some dark cassis on the nose. Slight vegetable quality (green pepper). Unexciting first drin, with very little fruit, but an interesting hint of earthiness. Might need a little more time or a good decanting. (5437 views) | | | Tasted by mariolanza on 4/5/2010 & rated 83 points: Reasonable drink for the price. No intensity here. Just good standard bordeaux blend. (5366 views) | | | Tasted by Finare Vinare on 2/14/2010 & rated 82 points: Unexciting blackcurrant nose with bell pepper and petrochemicals. Green and bitter tannins. Leaves an ugly grimace on the drinker's face. How could they blow it in a super year? Big disappointment. (6083 views) | | | Tasted by cobystilp on 1/18/2010 & rated 91 points: Opened, popped and poured on a Saturday night down in Rockport. It didn't really impress on night one. Vacuvined and left on the counter for 2 more nights. Transported back to Austin and re-opened after we got the kids to bed. It is a completely different and awesome wine tonight. It has just a little chill to it and has been aerating for two days. Wow! Full of great red fruits and cedar box. Hold on to your bottles for a few more years boys. This one needs some bottle age to show. (5668 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 9/27/2009 & rated 84 points: Ok cassis juice. The tannin is a bit edgy and green. Ok wine, but no luxury. Give it 3 - 5 years of rest, maybe it will evolve for the better. (5873 views) | | | Tasted by firespeed_1 on 8/2/2009 & rated 85 points: The 2005 Liversan had a dark ruby/purple core with a garnet rim. The colour suggested that it had already reached maturity. On the nose, it revealed red fruits, new oak and spice. On the palate, it was rather disappointing, it was medium bodied, a little too acidic and rather diluted. In my opinion, the wine was overoaked as there was not enough fruit to support it. The finish was short. Drink now or up to 2 years.
In Bordeaux, the 2005 vintage is suppose to be very good. Even cru bourgeois chateau should make good wine. Totally disappointed with Liversan. (6620 views) | | | Tasted by chbeaumont on 6/24/2009 & rated 89 points: Rubied, not overly deep; showy strawberries fruit, toffeed bouquet; some tannin contrasting with soft, ripe fruits, verging lush; plenty happening on a long, forceful finish. Yet to peak. (6242 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Château Liversan Producer websiteRed 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 RimmermanMédoc Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) - Read More about the Medoc
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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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