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  January 26, 2024 - Drinking quite youthfully (for its age). Liked it! Detail notes may yet follow...

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• Wine Canuck wrote: 96 points

  July 2, 2023 - An Epic Summer Wine Weekend - Year 2; 6/30/2023-7/2/2023 (Muskoka, Ontario, Canada): [Tasted Single Blind] This pours light garnet with light bricking. Great color considering the age. The nose is just banging from the first pop. The soaring aromas embody a particularly elegant profile of bright blood orange, ripe red plum, cigar ash, grilled meat, celery seed, and dusty rocky dry soil. The palate is just as good entering on bright red plum, turning to medium minus tannin and medium plus acid, offering up quite a silky texture. The finish closes harmoniously on red fruit and blood orange augmented by rocky mineral. What an incredible showing from this pristine bottle. Perfect label, perfect capsule, fill well into the neck. Just amazing.

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• margaux321 wrote: 93 points

  December 26, 2020 - The cork fell inside as I attempted to remove it. I used a coffee filter and a strainer to filter the wine and I ended up with a lot of sediments. Color was clear red with brown outer ring, as expected of a 50 year old wine. 1st nose, red fruits (raspberries, strawberries and currant.) 2nd nose, roasted oak and vanilla. On the palate, silky smooth, medium body with predominantly fruits and hardly any tannins. Medium to long finish.

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• decaturwinedude wrote: 93 points

  August 6, 2020 - This stuff just keeps showing well. Another nice bottle, clean, good fill, well-stored, though the label is pretty ragged. Healthy color, looks decades younger than it is. Has a strong and lively core of red fruit that leans cherry with earth and some dark caramel notes. Hints of green pepper come on a bit with air. Held up beautifully over a couple hours.

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• kingkanu wrote:

  February 29, 2020 - Matts 50th; 2/28/2020-3/2/2020 (Costa Brava): Great colour, bricking into the wine, quite stinky and more farmyard, meaty, the palate is still quite plush with plenty of fruit along with the leather and meaty developed notes, lovely length and still fresh, delicious

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• Vintage 1970
• Type Red
• Producer Château La Gaffelière
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru

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• In Cellars 166 (58%)
• Consumed 118 (42%)

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