2018 Château Calon-Ségur
Community Tasting Note
MicklethePickle Likes this wine:
Sunday, January 29, 2023 - Opened this last night. Seemed a little out of joint then, not the wine I remembered. That has been largely remedied with airing out in the cellar overnight. Impressive appearance: Viscous black ruby with a red rim and huge tears on the bowl of the glass. Obviously this is very young, but it is already revealing very plush deep purple fruit aromas, so deep they seem infinite. High tannins, but they cannot hide the copious amount of blackberry fruit, umami and soy sauce at the core of this loaded wine. If you have enough of this you could enjoy this with a long decant and hearty meaty dishes, but it will undoubtedly be fabulous thirty or forty years from now. I lament the fact that at 64 years, I am unlikely to be able to enjoy that experience. Gorgeous wine. 5-14-18-9: 96/100.
Still later, more blue fruits coming to the fore.
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Comment posted by Brentw1:
2/4/2023 12:35:00 PM - Excellent review and thank you. I’m a couple of years older than you and have a case of six. I shall make sure I finish them over the next few years as I would hate to have to leave them to the children!
Comment posted by MicklethePickle:
2/4/2023 1:26:00 PM - The bane of mortality, my friend. Thanks for the comment!