Community Tasting Notes 9

• Seventy wrote: 86 points

  January 11, 2014 - Color still dark for a red almost a decade old. Cheese on the nose, and otherwise vegetables on the nose and palate. Medium finish. Not bad with NY strip steak. Not worth saving for all these years.

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• bin905 wrote: 86 points

  June 18, 2012 - Somewhat medicinal, cherry cough syrup, tar, spice and band-aid flavors with fine tannins.

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• jeffal66 wrote: 87 points

  June 2, 2011 - Opens up after several hours. For the price, respectable Bordeaux. Good with pasta. I agree, a little thin but nothing to be disturbed by.

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• Colia wrote: 88 points

  March 29, 2009 - pencil lead, violets, blueberry. Kinda thin in terms of body.

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• iByron wrote: 83 points

  December 26, 2008 - From a 375ml bottle. Color (5/5) is a dark purple that's opaque in the glass and near opaque at the eye of a tasting pour. Soft vanilla woody vegetal plum on the nose (10/15) which is not all that powerful. The palate (12/20) is a plush, mouth-filling velvet plum on a stick with stewed berries and green stalk vegetables. Light tannins on the medium-short finish. Becomes more wooden with air. The fruit and structure are layered, not integrated: not surprising for such a recent vintage. Might integrate better in three years or so. (6/10) but I wouldn't wait that long.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Château Bel-Air
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation Lussac-St. Émilion
• UPC Codes 747505000271, 747505000301

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• In Cellars 70 (62%)
• Consumed 43 (38%)

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