(Blind tasting) Mature and full nose. Good depth. Dense and smokey with plums, liquorice, barnyard and tobacco. Tertiary notes of leather and meat stock. Quite complex and also a whiff of freshness. Medium-fullish palate with fully melted tannins. Nice dark fruit, tobacco, cedar, plum, gravel and smoke. Slightly astringent and a tiny bit bitter in finish. At twenty years of age, this was considered a good performance for such a basic Pomerol.
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Decanted for two hours. Had a lot of sediment. Still has dark red color that is beginning to brown a bit. Structure is holding up, but fruit is beginning to fade. Notes of sour cherry, currant, earth, wet stone and plum. Has decent depth and short to medium finish.
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Opened and decanted... had thrown a fair amount of sediment. Blackberries, currants and a hint of pencil lead. A bit more acid than expected, medium body and a short finish. Changed dramatically over the first few hours. Very deep and complex flavor. Will gas and finish tomorrow! Hoping for a structure change in the acid.
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Evolved colour, still deep core but rim is now quite orange. Leafy, vegetal truffly nose - a wine for those who like tertiary aromas. Palate still has sweet fruit but finish is getting a bit dusty.
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Wine-Pages Pomerol Offline (Alba, London.): Slightly stewed fruit nose. Quite evolved. OK though. A little acidic on the finish. Would make a nice drink with an informal supper but outclassed in this company. *1/2
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UK Wine-pages Pomerol Off-line (The Alba, London): Creamy strawberry nose, hint of caramel and mint. Not overly intense but attractive and complex. Palate lacking a little structure but tasty enough with creamy fruit, shortish finish. 85-87.
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Good deep colour; quite a tobaccoey, chocolately nose; fruity with chocolate flavours and hints of licorice. Pleasant but quite short. Some residual tannin.
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11/14/2015 - Argrath wrote: 89 Points
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Mature and full nose. Good depth. Dense and smokey with plums, liquorice, barnyard and tobacco. Tertiary notes of leather and meat stock. Quite complex and also a whiff of freshness.
Medium-fullish palate with fully melted tannins. Nice dark fruit, tobacco, cedar, plum, gravel and smoke. Slightly astringent and a tiny bit bitter in finish.
At twenty years of age, this was considered a good performance for such a basic Pomerol.
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1/4/2014 - jfarley3 wrote: 90 Points
Decanted for two hours. Had a lot of sediment. Still has dark red color that is beginning to brown a bit. Structure is holding up, but fruit is beginning to fade. Notes of sour cherry, currant, earth, wet stone and plum. Has decent depth and short to medium finish.
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3/30/2013 - italio39 wrote: 87 Points
Opened and decanted... had thrown a fair amount of sediment. Blackberries, currants and a hint of pencil lead. A bit more acid than expected, medium body and a short finish. Changed dramatically over the first few hours. Very deep and complex flavor. Will gas and finish tomorrow! Hoping for a structure change in the acid.
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12/15/2012 - Chimer wrote: 87 Points
Evolved colour, still deep core but rim is now quite orange. Leafy, vegetal truffly nose - a wine for those who like tertiary aromas. Palate still has sweet fruit but finish is getting a bit dusty.
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2/8/2008 - SimonG wrote:
Wine-Pages Pomerol Offline (Alba, London.): Slightly stewed fruit nose. Quite evolved. OK though. A little acidic on the finish. Would make a nice drink with an informal supper but outclassed in this company. *1/2
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2/8/2008 - Paul D wrote: 86 Points
UK Wine-pages Pomerol Off-line (The Alba, London): Creamy strawberry nose, hint of caramel and mint. Not overly intense but attractive and complex. Palate lacking a little structure but tasty enough with creamy fruit, shortish finish. 85-87.
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11/5/2005 - SimonG wrote:
As per previous note.
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1/15/2005 - SimonG wrote: 88 Points
Good colour, porty, figgy nose, following through ot the palatte with fat and alcohol. Moderate length. Very pleasant. Now.
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6/20/2003 - SimonG wrote: 87 Points
Good deep colour; quite a tobaccoey, chocolately nose; fruity with chocolate flavours and hints of licorice. Pleasant but quite short. Some residual tannin.
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9/1/2001 - OneLastSyrah wrote:
($25) Light colored, mostly red, slightly translucent. Earthy mineral nose. Not much going on. Medium acids on the palate. Nothing special.
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3/12/1998 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 75 Points
1995 Vintage Bordeaux Tasting (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Black fruit on the nose, simple, medium body at best, too earthy and tannic.
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