Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - After a marvelous bottle last year (scored 99), I had high hopes for another bottle from the same batch. Although it didn’t reach the same level it was still great. This wine is close to its peak with the most beautiful left bank aromatics with a potpourri of dark berries and tertiary aromas embedded in a soft structure and with great length. In the best moments it had intensity, depth and tension and was at 97/98 points. Overall, this bottle had a tad less precision and harmony and showed not consistent over a few hours – at first it was too young and wild and after three hours the structure softened but the aromatics where less impressive. But it’s splitting hairs… easily a 96+ point experience just a tad short of the exceptional category.

TN: Medium+ expressive nose with a medium+ intensity and precision. Wonderful cassis fruit, black- and blueberries mixed with lots of tobacco and with time more truffles, mushrooms and forest floor. Same aromas along more herbal notes, iodine, dark red fruit, leather and animal notes on the palate. More expressive than on the nose, good intensity and tension, medium+ precision, medium+ length. The tannins are ripe and fine but the wine needed air to soften and seemed too young at first. The acidity is pronounced and only with time got better integrated. Overall not as harmonious and perfect as the last bottle but still great.

Decanting: This bottle needed a good 90 minutes in the decanter to fully open up (same as the last bottle). But every bottle will be different at this stage.

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