Community Tasting Note

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - Best yet in a string of marvelous Durforts in the renaissance that's been going on over there since around 2014 or so. This is the essence of Margaux. I'm not even sure I've had a (Chateau) Margaux or Palmer that came as close to this as the Platonic ideal of the appellation. You will practically have a synaesthetic experience from the pure redness of the fruit and other elements on display here - think strawberries, raspberries, and bright red roses. They leave a vivid impression, but rendered with a light hand - Bordeaux in watercolors. Bright, maybe even bold, but transparent. It hits its zone after maybe an hour or two of air, when it shows firm contours on the entry but then dissolves into silk, and then dissolves further into the realm of the ethereal. And that's ultimately where it seems it wants to be this year. Even the next day, when the fruit turns darker and blacker, it holds on to its finesse. Some of the prior recent vintages have shown earth and grit, and done so in the best way, but this one is pure fruit and perfume. The others might turn out longer-lived, but they'll never be this seductive.

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Comment posted by GL Rhone:

3/17/2023 4:38:00 AM - Wow, great note, thanks Keith. How do you feel about drinking this one now? Ordinarily I like to wait out on cru classé Bordeaux to start drinking at 10 years or so, but what you describe here has me wondering whether this would seriously be worth enjoying now for those elements you describe… was your note a subjective assessment of the now or some sort of future projection? Thanks!!
Comment posted by Keith Levenberg:

3/17/2023 5:46:00 AM - It depends how many bottles you have of course but I'd definitely not want to miss it now if you can spare one.
Comment posted by Eric Becker:

3/18/2023 2:42:00 AM - As so often this is a very thoughtful and descriptive TN. I think you captured the essence of the wine really well.
Comment posted by chablis28:

3/24/2023 5:00:00 PM - Thanks Keith! Love the note and couldn't resist buying 3 based on your notes. However, I broke a promise to myself not to buy any more BDX on release!! I turn 68 this summer. That said, this sounds like it will gain with age but be fun now with air. I'll likely pop one of my 3 in the next few weeks. Great note!

Regards
Craig/chablis28
Twin Cities
Comment posted by Keith Levenberg:

3/24/2023 6:59:00 PM - There is no f'n way you are 68!!
Comment posted by chablis28:

3/25/2023 7:59:00 AM - Nope, still 67 till August :)