Community Tasting Note

GrapeScott wrote:

Monday, February 13, 2023 - Drank alongside the '02, I found this to be somewhat disappointing. I've largely avoided this vintage in BDX, but have had really good experiences with some wines (e.g. Pichon Lalande, which is elegant and sublime) that tempted me to reconsider my anti-'03 ideology. After all, some of the recent vintages (looking at you '09 and '18) are much higher in alcohol than this allegedly freakish year. Well this wine is not quite a freak, but it's definitely not in my wheelhouse at the moment. Bursting with dark berry fruit, roasted coffee and cocoa notes and burly tannins, this doesn't really show any terroir to speak of. I didn't see a lot of improvement on day 2 or day 3, and if anything it began to fall apart further. I'm not sure what to make of this, but I hope that either this is an off bottle, or perhaps a victim of travel shock (this was a London auction purchase and spent a few weeks or months at sea before landing in NY in late January).

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