Wineflock - 2003 Bordeaux, Parker 90+

Ken's
Tasted Thursday, November 9, 2006 by winefool with 1,060 views

Introduction

A fun evening as usual with well above average wines. Several dupes that of course no one picked until half the wines had been unveiled. Interesting that the Cali ringer stole the show against some top bordeaux. Why do I keep buying these again?

Also interesting that there was a pretty tight bunching of wines that represent probably a 10x range in price - $20 to $200+.

All wines blind as usual.

Flight 1 (1 Note)

  • 2002 Henschke Sémillon "Louis" 92 Points

    Australia, South Australia, Barossa, Eden Valley

    Pale white/yellow. Full rich aroma of spicy yellow fruit. tight yellow fruit with good acidity, spice, and some petrol hints? Tight with plenty of oak but great concentration.

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Flight 2 (10 Notes)

  • 2003 Les Forts de Latour 93 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Group #3, My #4 - Full deep red color. Clean bright red and black merlot fruits on the nose with hints of coffee. Full rich chocolate black fruit with a long coffee finish. A second bottle didn't show as well and displayed some asphalt notes on the finish.

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  • 2003 Château Bernadotte 91 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Haut-Médoc

    Group #10, My #7 - Full deep red. Full aroma of red/black fruit, acidity and some heat. big bold ripe black coffee fruit with notes of asphalt on the finish.

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  • 2003 Château Calon-Ségur 93 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe

    Group #9, My #5 - Full deep red color. Medium clean tight black fruit nose - bright and hot. Slight hints of wet socks way in the back of the nose. Big bold sweet spicy briar red fruit on the palate with a long tannic finish

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  • 2003 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Group #8, My #2 - Full deep red color. Lovely nose of rich black fruit with some green pepper and chocolate notes. Mmmn, nice rich spicy black fruit on the palate with just a hint of green pepper.

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  • 2003 Château Fleur Cardinale 91 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

    Group #4, My #9 - Full deep red color. Medium aroma of round acidic black fruit with the feintest note of damp socks. Big tight blackberry fruit with a long coffee finish. A bit clumsy by comparion to the others here?

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  • 2003 Araujo Estate Altagracia 94 Points

    USA, California, Napa Valley

    Group #1, My #1 (ringer) - Opaque red/black color. Forward nose of spice, black fruit, and chocolate esspresso. Mmmmn, big rich lush sweet bright black fruit with chocolate and coffee notes on the palate. Lovely. Interesting that after everyone was going on about how great the 03 Bordeaux were showing, this California 2nd wine walked away with WOTN by a wide margin. Hmmmn...

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  • 2003 Château Monbousquet 92 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

    Grou p#2, My #6 - Full deep red color. Full aroma of spicy black fruit, violets, and briar. Nice round candied black raspberry fruit on the palate. Long coffee finish.

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  • 2003 Château d'Issan 90 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux

    Group #12, My #10 - Full red color. Full aroma of sweet red candied fruit. round red fruit wit hgood acidity. Lighter bodied and shorter finish than most others.

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  • 2003 Château Pontet-Canet 90 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Group #5, My #11 - Opaque red color. Slightly sour red cherry cough syrup nose with a bit of heat, acidity, and toast. Medium black fruit with some heat on the palate. This actually opened up quite a bit and put on weight with time in glass.

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  • 2003 Château Margaux 94 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux

    Group #6, My #3 - Full red color. Medium clean coffee red fruit nose. Big bold concentrated tannic black fruit with a long coffee finish. This is still tight and young and hadn't been decated. Should be great with time.

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