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straight outta iowa Likes this wine:

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - On SAT night, with another couple, we enjoyed a magnum of 2003 Gruaud Larose with rack of lamb (yes, a bit of a lamb kick lately). I don't think I've ever had a GL I didn't like, but still the relative youth and the hot vintage gave me pause. Turned out the wine was perfectly enjoyable, and -- for better or worse -- devoid of both the vaunted GL funk and also any 03 over extraction. The wine had evolved nicely from a tannic perspective, but I must also say it bothered me a bit that, while clearly left bank bdx, it didn't quite scream "Gruaud" as my favorite ones have tended to do. In fact, it didn't even whisper "Gruaud". Just too young for the secondary/tertiary characteristics I so love in GL, I suppose? A perfectly respectable drink though, enjoyed by all. I would return to this one in a decade.

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