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A private tasting
The Hague
Tasted October 13, 2006 by Xavier Auerbach with 325 views
Flight 1 (9 notes)
White - Sparkling
1982 Beaumet Champagne Réserve Malakoff
90 points
Magnum. Has aged very well, lively, nutty, ripe acidity, drying out slightly.
Red
1997 Château Canon-la-Gaffelière
90 points
Delicious nose, modern, fragrant, ripe fruit, a bit slick perhaps; good evolution and intensity, warm, spicy, hint of the stables, spicy, seductive, some surmaturité in the fruit.
Red
1997 Château Sociando-Mallet
88 points
Cream and blackcurrants, light but not vegetal, rounded and juicy, pleasant, well-made, fully mature.
Red
1997 Château Angélus
91 points
More weight and concentration than you'd expect from a 1997, spicy, tobacco, good length, evolves well in the glass.
Red
1997 Château Clerc Milon
88 points
Lovely, rich nose of blackcurrants and cedar, deeper and more begetal than the Sociando 1997, sits happily in the glass but no real evolution, a bit tight.
Red
1997 Château Malescot St. Exupéry
85 points
A bit scraggy, light and vegetal, old-fashioned, somehow atttractive anyway.
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Red
1997 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
90 points
Delicious, seductive, harmonious, satiny, cedar, juicy, sweet fruit, rounded yet elegant.
Red - Fortified
1977 Taylor (Fladgate) Porto Vintage
92 points
Complete, mature but with potential, violet, elegant, crystallised fruit, slightly nutty, tannic backbone, fresh, delicately sweet. Now - 2020.
Red - Fortified
1977 Fonseca Porto Vintage
95 points
Deep and rich, figs and spices, concentrated, delicious, quintessential Fonseca, a beauty. Now - 2015.