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Sleepy Dave wrote:

Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 2011 Simple Series X: Mark in town (Asia Grand @ Odeon Tower): Alcohol :: 13.5%
Oh man, the medium golden color told us that this is much older than the Carillon and I thought this was from mid 90s. The aromas is ripe and quite powerful with honey, peaches, yellow floral that added better complexity with roasted almond, hazelnut as well as dried herbs. This really captured everyone attention with it's color and expressive aromas. Entry was very rich and creamy, almost viscous that move on to the weighty, concentrated mid palate that has plenty of sap with flavors of iron, nut, mineral and a touch of honey on the kinda disjointed finish with red apple and peaches aftertaste. Everything seems right from the nose, entry and mid palate, however I feel that this wine a bit too forward an lack of tension as well as the disjointed finish, perhaps bottle condition wasn't that good? The 1999 I had weeks ago was a way better example of this plot from Lafon. 87

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