Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Sunday, July 17, 2022 - Annual BYO Pre-Dinner (mostly mature Bordeauxs): From magnum. Shunned by the critics on release, this vintage turns out to be one of the best vintages for current consumption and probably among the top 10 vintages in the past 50 years before the Chateau’s hot streak begun with the 2009 vintage. This was drinking so easily, I could have finished the mag alone. 94/95 pts

TN: Intense, young, dark berries, herbs, minerality, some tobacco. On the palate this is well balanced, with a telltale graphite minerality, a sweet, ripe dark fruit core, some leather, whiffs of tobacco and some faint toasty notes. Medium+ precision. Beautiful roundness, with round, velvety tannins, a well integrated medium acidity, a creamy texture. Well balanced and with a long but not overly complex finish.

Decanting: This should be good to go with 2 hours in the decanter.

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