Ultimo Wine Centre - Bordeaux First Tasting

An opportunity to try some 2010 bottle samples from Thienpoint as well as some back vintages of Pavie Macquin and Vieux Chateau Certan with Ultimo.

• 2009 Château Pavie Macquin

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

  Jammy/toasty. engineered. disappointing.

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• 2004 Château Pavie Macquin

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

  leather, toast, black fruit, good acidity. balanced. nice.

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• 1998 Château Pavie Macquin

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

  leather, red over black fruit - both subdued. medium plus tannin, medium minus acid. okay.

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• 2010 Les Chênes de Macquin

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion

  Grippy tannin, hot alcohol dominate the proceedings

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• 2009 Les Chênes de Macquin

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion

  too homogenised - anywhere in the world could have produced this wine.

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• 2007 Les Chênes de Macquin

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion

  Massive and unwieldy. ugly.

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• 2006 Les Chênes de Macquin

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion

  Clean fruit, good acidity. Nice effort.

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• 2010 Vieux Château Certan

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

  Very new world. Don't get me wrong, this wine is impeccably made but it has as much soul as a lump of concrete. The oak is tannic and grippy, the fruit is dark and jammy - concentrated to a preposterous degree, the acid licks at the palate. Close to perfect wine-making - they obviously spent a lot of effort on this utterly forgettable wine. Yawn.

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• 2009 Vieux Château Certan

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

  Less new world but still not what I perceive (in my naivety) what Bordeaux should be. It has chalky tannin, alcohol heat, medium plus acidity and wet red fruit over biscuit.

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• 2007 Vieux Château Certan

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

  Jammy fruit, leather and chalky tannin. hmm

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• 2009 Château Puygueraud

  France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Francs Côtes de Bordeaux

  subdued fruit with tannin, hints of leather, acidity. balanced. reasonable value. nice.

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Standard bun fight with nowhere to lean to write notes hence the horrendous quality of these. I did not enjoy any of the wines really with the exception of the 06 Les Chenes de Macquin and the 09 Chateau Puygueraud. I found the Vieux Chateau Certan and Pavie Macquin over-engineered and homogenised and, ultimately, disappointing.