Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 30x 1955 & 1961 (mostly Bdx): Tasted single blind. Taste-off between the 1955 and 1961 vintages. The 1961 (rated 93 pts) was the clear winner. Alive and kicking, wonderfully mature, quite complex and with a fine structure. The 1955 (rated 87 pts) had not the same complexity, wasn’t as clean and was more power than elegance and substance and was slightly lactic. These Calon Segurs were a bit weaker and more inconsistent than their neighbouring Phelan Segurs from the same vintages (rated 91 and 93 pts) in the same flight.

TN: A bit of heat on the nose and not much well-delineated aromas. On the palate there is still a good fruit core, some herbs and mature Bdx aromas. The precision is ok but it is not overly complex - still, it is quite pleasant. The wine has a lot of tension and power but is slightly lactic and it gets acidic towards the finish.

Decanting: Not decanted, maybe this would have been better with a bit of air (but I doubt it).

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