Informal evening @ Roel's

Netherlands
Tasted Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by jkoenen with 368 views

Introduction

Another lovely tasting @ Roel's.
Assignment: Bring one precious bottle to be served non-blinded and one recent discovery to serve blinded.
Which we did.

Flight 1 - welcome wine (1 Note)

Flight 2 - flight 1 (3 Notes)

served non-blinded

  • 1985 Château Palmer 91 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux

    Brownish red. Glorious nose of lavas, dried flowers, dried blackcurrants, prunes, smoke. Very floral, perfume-like. Good rusticity, asian spice, tomatoleaf. A sip: juicy, bright entree. Medium-to- slender bodied, attractive, charming, aophisticated in a feminine way.
    Quite Burgundian in structure, freshness. Abundant acidity peaking through, which gets more and more prominant during aeration.. Although there are no rusty, metallic notes yet, and the acidity is too tart but not decrepit, I still consider this a shortcoming.
    So, 94/100 for the nose, 88/100 for the palate.

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  • 1986 Château Haut-Brion 95 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    Mature color, dark core of ruby/brownish purple. Smoke, cigars, schoolpaint, but also mixed spice, canned cherries, creme de cassis and the mesmerizing odour of old hogheads... The structure of this wine is masculine, sturdy, outdoorsy. Mid-palate is very dense, complex too. Earthy flavours, garrigue, dry wood. Strong tannic presence in the long finish, which I like. This is a very self-confident, slightly melancholic wine to savour and contemplate on now and in the following 5 years.

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  • 1999 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 92 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Intriguing nose of ink, musk, cinnamon, macerated red and black fruit, coffebeans, cigarbox and cedar. Not the most dense mid-palate, no, there's a lovely transparency and drinkability to this wine. Very generous and accessible. Just pull the cork and enjoy.

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Flight 3 - flight 2 (3 Notes)

served blinded

  • 2004 Domaine Guiberteau Saumur Les Arboises Brézé 89 Points

    France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Saumur

    Vegetable soup, lavas, bellpepper. Farmyardy and rustic, hidden fruit. Fresh cut herbs, dash of poop. In the mouth the fruit is better, brighter red. Chalky finish, soft tannines. Feels kinda young. Needs a few more years to find more harmony and unity.

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  • 2005 Clos St. Julien 92 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion

    Shamelessly modern and extracted, but extremely well made and well defined. Crushed blueberries, mint, creme de cassis, stencil ink, banana, vanilla, coconut, licorice, new shoes, asian spice etc. etc.
    You can really sink you teeth into this, lots of tannines, which are sweet and ripe. Great balance. A great wine for the future. Next bottle in 4 years?

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  • 2003 Chateau Musar 88 Points

    Lebanon, Bekaa Valley

    Light color, Nebbiolo-like. Shy nose, closed for business. Difficult to describe. Sweetish entree, terracotta warmth, tomato, floral too. Sultry and generous on the palate, some alcoholic fizz in the back. Not my cuppa. Grenache?

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Closing

Personal WOTN: Haut Brion 1986

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