7th of 12, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, little changed from bottle noted last August, high on pleasure but rating held back by inherent simplicity, plateau, 10+ years. VGI (17).
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6th of 12, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, rounding out nicely and with more volume than the 01 if much the same flavour profile, inherent simplicity of flavours inhibits higher mark but pleasure factor better than mark implies, with more nuance and grace an upgrade possible, 10 years. VGI (17).
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Opened this for some family and it was a crowd pleaser but I was still impressed by it. I really liked it at the 13% abv. lean, clean and not mean at all. Very approachable, with just enough fruit and structure to balance everything out.
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Our last of 24 bottles, this is still a very attractive wine, fully mature but lively; soft, plummy fruit, medium to full on the palate and with quite a long finish.
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Bordeaux 2000 - 20 Years On - 48 Reds: All tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) It´s a good vintage but not on par with more recent great vintages like 09/10/15/16. Why? A smaller group of top wines reaching lower highs and in general a tad less depth, purity and finesse. 2) Right bank is ready, the left bank still needs time to integrate and open up. 3) Not much tertiary aromas yet - peak drinking window at least 10 years away for most wines. 4) 2000 is a bit a cooler vintage which is great for the right bank (not too much ripeness). 5) Winners? Pomerol with the highest ratings. Le Pin (97+ pts) leading the pack for me (narrowly beating the consensus winner Pavie (97 pts).
More information, top and worst 10 lists, appellation rankings, out- and underperformer from five participants in the story link. As always, in such tastings (lots of wines, not a lot of time per wine, not decanted) the ranking of wines/appellations might be more informative than the scores.
TN: While not the most complex wine, this was quite fun to drink with coffee, fresh dark berries and sweet red berries on the nose and palate. Fine tannins, good acidity and nicely creamy texture. Drinks well today.
Decanting: No extended decant needed.
Group average: 90.4 pts Group rank: Shared 42nd out of 48
Dark, ripe, mature, exotic St Emilion. Good drinking now. Doesn’t have ground breaking complexity and never will, but lovely stuff nonetheless. A great value estate that is worth seeking out.
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Grand Bordeaux 2000 horizontal tasting; 6/20/2021-6/21/2021: Grand Bordeaux 2000 tasting with ~60 wines from the vintage hosted by a private collector. All wines were poured directly from the bottle with no decant and served in flights of 4. As general observations I would highlight: 1/ Today the 2000 is, without a doubt, a right bank vintage with Pomerol the star, 2/ the vast majority of wines are still going strong with hardly any past their peak 3/ On the left bank, St Estèphe was most ready to drink with a lot of wines in a closed stage right now, 4/ On the left bank, 2nd to 4th growths were generally more open for business than the 1st growths which almost all closed, only hinting at their full potential. 5/ If you must open a left bank bottle, Margaux is the safest place to look. Complete scoring overview and additional commentary included in the tasting story.
Tasting note: Coffee, nice and fruity, a bit of wet earth. Palate very much fruit forward, but with not much weight behind it.
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Bottle 23 of 24, and just beginning to show its age. Still a wine of substance, but rather earthier and more rustic compared to previous bottles, with the fruit slightly drier than before.
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Quite a deep colour; still plenty of depth and vigour to the wine, which has blackcurrant and plum fruit and a touch of fruitcake. Elegant, balanced and long. Fine.
Mature, soft, quite elegant but perhaps a little attenuated; we have had more lively and better balanced examples, so perhaps this bottle is slightly past its best. Very good, even so.
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5th of 12, opened 80 minutes, perfect cork and level, now on maturity plateau, nice fruit forward style (reminding one of California) with plushness of top vintage, just a bit simple, though more attractive than mark might suggest, no rush. VGI (17).
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Smells of oak and leather wallet. Grippy, lingering finish. Purple fruit far away in the background. Got soft and lush after an hour in the decanter. Not complex but very enjoyable.
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What a delightful wine this is, with soft, smooth, creamy fruit, and a slight sweetness that comes only with true maturity, yet it wears its years lightly. If only all claret were as charming as this!
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Mature, in a good phase. Very good nose, some sweetness. Integrated tannins, decently dense and fresh. Some tertiary, cassis. Good wine and great for its price. Has more years to go, I'd say 3-5 years
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Soft, elegant, creamy with ripe blackberry and plum fruit, good weight and roundness, and a complete finish. Fully mature, but still a very attractive claret.
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Medium to full colour; the palate is soft but quite full, with mature plum fruit and a slight creaminess; elegant and quite long. A fine, mature claret.
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Fully mature but not yet declining, with plum/damson fruit and hints of spice and smoke. Elegant and well rounded. At its peak and for drinking before it starts to fade.
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A deep colour; quite full, with mature, plummy fruit, elegant but with a slight astringency. Not quite as good as previous bottles, and perhaps starting to show its age.
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A deep colour; soft, but concentrated, with plum/blackberry fruit and a touch of menthol. Elegant and with good length. We enjoyed this as much as Ch Grand Puy Lacoste 2000 drunk the previous day, even though that costs three times as much!
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4th of 12, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, now in drinking window with attractive roundness and weight of rich plummy fruit, more potential than more immediately attractive 01 on same night, bit too simple and 4 square today for better than VGI (17).
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A fairly deep colour; soft, elegant, plum/blackberry fruit, medium to full on the palate and a well rounded finish. This is à point and for drinking over the next few years.
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Bright and clear ruby color. Decanted, there was moderate sediment left in the bottle. Good clean fruity aroma. Flavor exhibited low tannin with decent fruit and good balanced. Body was medium/full with a smooth texture. Medium length finish. At a peak, but will last for several more years.
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Medium weight, quite elegant, savoury, with mature fruit and some attenuation on the finish. Not as good as previous bottles, and perhaps starting to show its age.
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A deep colour; elegant, refined, well rounded and quite full. A very stylish claret, soft and with good persistence on the palate. It has rich, slightly sweet fruit and classic claret smokiness. Excellent.
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A dark colour, but still bright; quite ripe, rich, plummy fruit with a slightly grassy tinge; elegant and composed; at its peak of maturity, although it should hold well for some time yet.
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A lovely petit Saint Emilion from a good year... nice nose but faint, initially subdued flavor that opened up after 45 minutes in decanter. Still fun to drink, especially those of us who enjoy the old ones. I'm guessing as much as five more years left if well stored.
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If I may be a tad fanciful for a moment (but just a tad), this smells like an old leather tome ... or mossy old rocks, a pockmarked well-worn drafting table, a ‘50s bomb-shelter turned into a root cellar ... you get the drift. For some reason I got more fruit in class than I am now. A handful of dried blackberries and cranberries linger on against a backdrop of deeply cured tobacco leaves, Shiitake mushroom, singed thyme, cedar planks, and dank riverbed. Tannins remain robust but silky smooth and somehow the acid is still at a sturdy medium level. Nice to enjoy this in its golden years. I don’t think it’s tired ... Not quite. But it’s time to drink this.
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3rd of 12, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, previous notes VG - deep, glossy, youthful, garnet; plum, touch of vanilla and spice, attractive if simple; medium full, decent length but not particularly persistent, quite concentrated, nice sweetish core, bit 4 square and simple, mature. VG (16).
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Fully mature, the wine is medium bodied, elegant and soft, with nuances of truffle, smoke, tobacco, thyme, and cherries. There is a fresh quality to the fruit, that is present from start to finish. This is not a wine to hold for further development as the fruit is just starting to recede.
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I think you have to catch it as it goes by after one hour and before two. There isn't much on both sides of that window, but it is really pleasant with lunch. Parker initially gave it 90 and called it a sleeper of the vintage, that's why I bought it. It is past its prime, of course, but still fun to drink. I agree with Rossi.wine who said "Drink up but no rush."
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Tasted next to the 2005. Not much more evolved, a bit softer and more earthy maybe, showing less fruit. Again a bit linear and straightforward. Decent length. Drink up, but no rush. 88-90
Still somewhat austere. Decanted and aerated. Remained consistent over 3 hours, and on second day. Color still a moderately dark ruby red. Not much of a nose or palate at all. Mild light berry fruit. Some light wood and forest floor.
Initially acts slightly past peak, but subsequent glasses prove otherwise. It improves glass to glass and certainly presents better slightly chilled. Doesn't need decanting but would benefit from filtering for sediment. Love the inky, focused black raspberry/cherry, licorice, almost garrigue, a touch darker than classic St. Emilion. Very nice. 67-70% Merlot, 23-25% Cabernet Franc, 5-10% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now.
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First bottle of a half case I added to the cellar recently. Short decant. Light, cherry red appearance. Nose was very pleasant. Silky smooth and elegant mouth feel although oddly the fruit seemed to be very faint and fading. Reminded me more of a burgundy/pinot than bordeaux. It started to open up a bit as meal went on and show fruit a little more but there wasn't much left in the decanter by that point.
I'm not sure if this just needed a longer decant, or if there was a slight flaw with the bottle, but my experience with this wine wasn't very consistent with the other tasting notes on CT. Still very enjoyable but didn't seem to me to have the longevity that others have expressed. I am going to hold off on scoring this one until I have a chance to open another bottle of this.
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This is med/med-full bodied. My subjective taste descriptors are dark berry, leather, and cassis on the nose. Catcher's mit, just a touch. Taste is deep, elegant, moderately long, and definitely wonderful. It is drinking very smoothly now, close to satin but not quite yet. There is some sediment. There is zero bricking, or amber on the edges yet.
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Very dark black cherry red in color and the same goes for the nose, quite youthful and well integrated, good fruit on the entry, starting to get that inky, almost Pauillac quality,tannins are still lively, but also silky. Smokey dark fruit, all components are there, probably can go another several years of evolution, but I like it right now. This is a nice! ( I remember trying this wine young, and it was hard and tannic about 10 years ago, this is currently at a sweet spot as the fruit is still lively). hold or drink. 92+
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Bouquet of blackberries, vanilla, valrhona chocolate and some cedar, also some bacon and umami. On the palate a big mouthful of wine. The tannins are nicely integrated but will keep this wine going for at least another decade. But very nice drinking right now. Definitly a bordeaux not only for hardcore BDX freaks.
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Medium to dark ruby red color. Ever so slight bricking around the edge. Wonderful nose of forest floor, tobacco, cedar, smokiness of a bon fire. Still tannic on the palate, but not too bad. Pretty well integrated. Some initial bite, but then the subtle fruit and lots of earthiness flows over the tongue. Moderately long palate of 30+ seconds. These notes are immediately after opening from temperature controlled cellar then performing a strainer / funnel decant. Took a sip immediately upon open and determined it definitely needed the decant. Pretty tight and harsh, but the decant made a huge difference.
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Drank over two nights, with and without food. Very dark maroon color. Thin, fast legs. Potent nose full of lots of ripe fruit (mostly blueberries); a little tobacco, and maybe a little faint graphite on the periphery. Initially the palate seems a little flabby - big fruit, but lacking enough accompanying acidty to lift it up. The mid-palate gains some structure from loose-knit tannins, but there's still a little lingering flabbiness lurking in the background. The finish is monotone. There's concentration, and the fruit is clean, but overall this wine seems to lack verve and inspiration.
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1 1/2 hour decant. Medium bodied dark purple color with smokey, dark thick chocolate, burnt orange flavors up front and blackberry, currant fruits emerging mid palate, noticeable but reasonably integrated tannins and medium long finish. Not with the complexity or layering of flavors of more prominent Bordeaux of course, but I found the flavors surprising and I quite liked it.Drinks well now with some decanting time, but it should drink well and somewhat differently in a few years Probably not to everyone's taste so I'll have to try it on some Bordeaux loving friends where I suspect it will get a mixed reaction
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La Manche Wine Circle - Pomerol versus Saint Emilion (Le Rouge Palu): Big legs on a viscous black-red robe with magenta highlights. Very concentrated nose with a ripe damson ‘plum pudding’ fruit above a peppery spice, liquorice and a hint of tobacco. A big mouthful of cherry and concentrated black fruits, longish and firm. Huge potential to age. Nice.
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Lovely wine. Had the first glass with roast chicken (bottle had been open for an hour) and the glass was very nice. Decent fruit with a nice - but small - fragrance. Cellar temperature is 50 F - so the chill may have had something to do with the restrained profile at first. By the last glass 90 minutes later I was enjoying impressive aromas of coffee and chocolate and a touch or burnt vanilla. I should decant next time.
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I expected more given the vintage, just a nice medium bodied claret with reasonably good concentration/depth. A hint of cocoa to the earthy dark fruit flavors and tannins still obvious so maybe waiting a year or two for the next one makes sense.
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I gave this about 2 hours in the decanter. Well concentrated, tanins were not overwhelming and finsih was smooth. It got beter with another hour out of the bottle. I think it will improve for a few years, not sure it is a long hold.
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4/21/2024 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark garnet color. Cola and a panapoly of red fruits on the nose. Delicious red fruit centric, especially strawberries, and a touch of Indian spices.
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7/19/2023 - liber Likes this wine: 90 Points
7th of 12, opened 30 minutes, perfect cork and level, little changed from bottle noted last August, high on pleasure but rating held back by inherent simplicity, plateau, 10+ years. VGI (17).
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3/4/2023 - RED AND BLACK wrote: 91 Points
Confirm my 2020 note, this has a couple years now left before it becomes watery
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8/31/2022 - liber Likes this wine: 90 Points
6th of 12, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, rounding out nicely and with more volume than the 01 if much the same flavour profile, inherent simplicity of flavours inhibits higher mark but pleasure factor better than mark implies, with more nuance and grace an upgrade possible, 10 years. VGI (17).
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5/6/2022 - Jd6725 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Opened this for some family and it was a crowd pleaser but I was still impressed by it. I really liked it at the 13% abv. lean, clean and not mean at all. Very approachable, with just enough fruit and structure to balance everything out.
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10/31/2021 - Nothung Likes this wine: 91 Points
Still drinking well, even if it’s lost half a step.
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8/7/2021 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Our last of 24 bottles, this is still a very attractive wine, fully mature but lively; soft, plummy fruit, medium to full on the palate and with quite a long finish.
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7/14/2021 - Cailles wrote: 91 Points
Bordeaux 2000 - 20 Years On - 48 Reds: All tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) It´s a good vintage but not on par with more recent great vintages like 09/10/15/16. Why? A smaller group of top wines reaching lower highs and in general a tad less depth, purity and finesse. 2) Right bank is ready, the left bank still needs time to integrate and open up. 3) Not much tertiary aromas yet - peak drinking window at least 10 years away for most wines. 4) 2000 is a bit a cooler vintage which is great for the right bank (not too much ripeness). 5) Winners? Pomerol with the highest ratings. Le Pin (97+ pts) leading the pack for me (narrowly beating the consensus winner Pavie (97 pts).
More information, top and worst 10 lists, appellation rankings, out- and underperformer from five participants in the story link. As always, in such tastings (lots of wines, not a lot of time per wine, not decanted) the ranking of wines/appellations might be more informative than the scores.
TN: While not the most complex wine, this was quite fun to drink with coffee, fresh dark berries and sweet red berries on the nose and palate. Fine tannins, good acidity and nicely creamy texture. Drinks well today.
Decanting: No extended decant needed.
Group average: 90.4 pts
Group rank: Shared 42nd out of 48
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6/22/2021 - Owen97 Likes this wine: 87 Points
Dark, ripe, mature, exotic St Emilion. Good drinking now. Doesn’t have ground breaking complexity and never will, but lovely stuff nonetheless. A great value estate that is worth seeking out.
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6/20/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 90 Points
Grand Bordeaux 2000 horizontal tasting; 6/20/2021-6/21/2021: Grand Bordeaux 2000 tasting with ~60 wines from the vintage hosted by a private collector. All wines were poured directly from the bottle with no decant and served in flights of 4. As general observations I would highlight: 1/ Today the 2000 is, without a doubt, a right bank vintage with Pomerol the star, 2/ the vast majority of wines are still going strong with hardly any past their peak 3/ On the left bank, St Estèphe was most ready to drink with a lot of wines in a closed stage right now, 4/ On the left bank, 2nd to 4th growths were generally more open for business than the 1st growths which almost all closed, only hinting at their full potential. 5/ If you must open a left bank bottle, Margaux is the safest place to look. Complete scoring overview and additional commentary included in the tasting story.
Tasting note:
Coffee, nice and fruity, a bit of wet earth. Palate very much fruit forward, but with not much weight behind it.
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4/24/2021 - La Grappe wrote: 88 Points
Bottle 23 of 24, and just beginning to show its age. Still a wine of substance, but rather earthier and more rustic compared to previous bottles, with the fruit slightly drier than before.
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2/20/2021 - La Grappe wrote: 92 Points
Quite a deep colour; still plenty of depth and vigour to the wine, which has blackcurrant and plum fruit and a touch of fruitcake. Elegant, balanced and long. Fine.
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1/8/2021 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Quite dense, with nicely mature fruit, good structure and length. Still lively and not showing undue signs of age. A fine bottle for current drinking.
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12/13/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
A fine, mature claret, still with fresh acidity, but soft and creamy on the palate, elegant and with a long finish. Will hold for a while yet.
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11/14/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 89 Points
Mature, soft, quite elegant but perhaps a little attenuated; we have had more lively and better balanced examples, so perhaps this bottle is slightly past its best. Very good, even so.
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11/9/2020 - liber Likes this wine: 90 Points
5th of 12, opened 80 minutes, perfect cork and level, now on maturity plateau, nice fruit forward style (reminding one of California) with plushness of top vintage, just a bit simple, though more attractive than mark might suggest, no rush. VGI (17).
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10/3/2020 - cugel_saga Likes this wine: 90 Points
Smells of oak and leather wallet. Grippy, lingering finish. Purple fruit far away in the background.
Got soft and lush after an hour in the decanter.
Not complex but very enjoyable.
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9/29/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
What a delightful wine this is, with soft, smooth, creamy fruit, and a slight sweetness that comes only with true maturity, yet it wears its years lightly. If only all claret were as charming as this!
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9/19/2020 - RED AND BLACK wrote: 91 Points
Mature, in a good phase. Very good nose, some sweetness. Integrated tannins, decently dense and fresh. Some tertiary, cassis. Good wine and great for its price. Has more years to go, I'd say 3-5 years
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8/23/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Soft, elegant, creamy with ripe blackberry and plum fruit, good weight and roundness, and a complete finish. Fully mature, but still a very attractive claret.
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6/20/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 90 Points
Mature, stylish claret, with plum and blackberry fruit, good weight and length. Just right for current drinking.
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6/1/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
This is still a lovely wine, soft, ripe and creamy, nicely mature, elegant and long. A good buy (bought in 2019 for about the same price as the 2016).
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4/18/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Soft, ripe, quite creamy, with plum fruit, medium to full weight and good length. A fine mature claret.
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3/27/2020 - La Grappe Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nicely mature, with plum fruit, some spice, medium weight and good length. Quite a stylish wine, for drinking now.
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2/3/2020 - La Grappe wrote: 90 Points
Quite sturdy but elegant, with refined plum and blackberry fruit and good length. Fully mature but still lively. For drinking rather than keeping.
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12/14/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 90 Points
Medium to full colour; the palate is soft but quite full, with mature plum fruit and a slight creaminess; elegant and quite long. A fine, mature claret.
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11/15/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 90 Points
Fully mature but not yet declining, with plum/damson fruit and hints of spice and smoke. Elegant and well rounded. At its peak and for drinking before it starts to fade.
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10/22/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 88 Points
Mature, slightly gamey and a bit rough, unlike other bottles which have been quite elegant. This one seems not to have kept as well.
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10/14/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 90 Points
Soft, elegant, mature but not old, with plum fruit, medium weight and good length. An attractive claret just right for current drinking.
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9/19/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 88 Points
A deep colour; quite full, with mature, plummy fruit, elegant but with a slight astringency. Not quite as good as previous bottles, and perhaps starting to show its age.
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8/31/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
A deep colour; soft, but concentrated, with plum/blackberry fruit and a touch of menthol. Elegant and with good length. We enjoyed this as much as Ch Grand Puy Lacoste 2000 drunk the previous day, even though that costs three times as much!
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8/17/2019 - liber Likes this wine: 90 Points
4th of 12, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, now in drinking window with attractive roundness and weight of rich plummy fruit, more potential than more immediately attractive 01 on same night, bit too simple and 4 square today for better than VGI (17).
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5/21/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
A fairly deep colour; soft, elegant, plum/blackberry fruit, medium to full on the palate and a well rounded finish. This is à point and for drinking over the next few years.
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5/3/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
Quite a deep colour; soft, elegant fruit on the palate, nicely rounded and with good persistence. A stylish wine which is perfect for drinking now.
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4/30/2019 - wesrob Likes this wine: 91 Points
Bright and clear ruby color. Decanted, there was moderate sediment left in the bottle. Good clean fruity aroma. Flavor exhibited low tannin with decent fruit and good balanced. Body was medium/full with a smooth texture. Medium length finish. At a peak, but will last for several more years.
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4/17/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 88 Points
Medium weight, quite elegant, savoury, with mature fruit and some attenuation on the finish. Not as good as previous bottles, and perhaps starting to show its age.
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4/4/2019 - G_H wrote: 90 Points
Not ready yet, needs at least another five years to integrate
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2/26/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 91 Points
A deep colour; elegant, refined, well rounded and quite full. A very stylish claret, soft and with good persistence on the palate. It has rich, slightly sweet fruit and classic claret smokiness. Excellent.
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2/12/2019 - La Grappe wrote: 90 Points
A dark colour, but still bright; quite ripe, rich, plummy fruit with a slightly grassy tinge; elegant and composed; at its peak of maturity, although it should hold well for some time yet.
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8/3/2018 - seijaro Likes this wine: 91 Points
A lovely petit Saint Emilion from a good year... nice nose but faint, initially subdued flavor that opened up after 45 minutes in decanter. Still fun to drink, especially those of us who enjoy the old ones. I'm guessing as much as five more years left if well stored.
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6/8/2018 - Cabernetdialectic Likes this wine: 94 Points
If I may be a tad fanciful for a moment (but just a tad), this smells like an old leather tome ... or mossy old rocks, a pockmarked well-worn drafting table, a ‘50s bomb-shelter turned into a root cellar ... you get the drift. For some reason I got more fruit in class than I am now. A handful of dried blackberries and cranberries linger on against a backdrop of deeply cured tobacco leaves, Shiitake mushroom, singed thyme, cedar planks, and dank riverbed. Tannins remain robust but silky smooth and somehow the acid is still at a sturdy medium level. Nice to enjoy this in its golden years. I don’t think it’s tired ... Not quite. But it’s time to drink this.
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3/26/2018 - liber Likes this wine: 88 Points
3rd of 12, opened an hour, perfect cork and level, previous notes VG - deep, glossy, youthful, garnet; plum, touch of vanilla and spice, attractive if simple; medium full, decent length but not particularly persistent, quite concentrated, nice sweetish core, bit 4 square and simple, mature. VG (16).
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1/6/2018 - Nothung Likes this wine: 89 Points
Nice, but fairly one dimensional.
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12/13/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 Points
Fully mature, the wine is medium bodied, elegant and soft, with nuances of truffle, smoke, tobacco, thyme, and cherries. There is a fresh quality to the fruit, that is present from start to finish. This is not a wine to hold for further development as the fruit is just starting to recede.
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8/25/2017 - Ralph_ wrote: 91 Points
Wetzi's Trübli the last (Wetzi's Trübli): From another bottle
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8/25/2017 - Ralph_ wrote: 91 Points
Wetzi's Trübli the last (Wetzi's Trübli): drink
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4/22/2017 - seijaro Likes this wine: 91 Points
I think you have to catch it as it goes by after one hour and before two. There isn't much on both sides of that window, but it is really pleasant with lunch. Parker initially gave it 90 and called it a sleeper of the vintage, that's why I bought it. It is past its prime, of course, but still fun to drink. I agree with Rossi.wine who said "Drink up but no rush."
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8/22/2016 - Salute Likes this wine: 88 Points
Dry, thin, not too much going on.
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3/9/2016 - rossi.wine wrote: 89 Points
Tasted next to the 2005. Not much more evolved, a bit softer and more earthy maybe, showing less fruit. Again a bit linear and straightforward. Decent length. Drink up, but no rush. 88-90
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1/22/2016 - lebo9968@gmail.com wrote: 88 Points
Still somewhat austere. Decanted and aerated. Remained consistent over 3 hours, and on second day. Color still a moderately dark ruby red. Not much of a nose or palate at all. Mild light berry fruit. Some light wood and forest floor.
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11/2/2015 - Giggs wrote: 90 Points
Given the 15 years past vintage, I can forgive some bottle variation. This one presented a couple years past peak. Still, enjoyable stuff.
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9/24/2015 - Giggs wrote: 92 Points
Initially acts slightly past peak, but subsequent glasses prove otherwise. It improves glass to glass and certainly presents better slightly chilled. Doesn't need decanting but would benefit from filtering for sediment. Love the inky, focused black raspberry/cherry, licorice, almost garrigue, a touch darker than classic St. Emilion. Very nice. 67-70% Merlot, 23-25% Cabernet Franc, 5-10% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now.
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8/23/2014 - STLMIKE Likes this wine:
First bottle of a half case I added to the cellar recently. Short decant. Light, cherry red appearance. Nose was very pleasant. Silky smooth and elegant mouth feel although oddly the fruit seemed to be very faint and fading. Reminded me more of a burgundy/pinot than bordeaux. It started to open up a bit as meal went on and show fruit a little more but there wasn't much left in the decanter by that point.
I'm not sure if this just needed a longer decant, or if there was a slight flaw with the bottle, but my experience with this wine wasn't very consistent with the other tasting notes on CT. Still very enjoyable but didn't seem to me to have the longevity that others have expressed. I am going to hold off on scoring this one until I have a chance to open another bottle of this.
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3/27/2014 - ESubvaria Likes this wine: 90 Points
This is med/med-full bodied. My subjective taste descriptors are dark berry, leather, and cassis on the nose. Catcher's mit, just a touch. Taste is deep, elegant, moderately long, and definitely wonderful. It is drinking very smoothly now, close to satin but not quite yet. There is some sediment. There is zero bricking, or amber on the edges yet.
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3/11/2014 - edub7 wrote: 92 Points
Very dark black cherry red in color and the same goes for the nose, quite youthful and well integrated, good fruit on the entry, starting to get that inky, almost Pauillac quality,tannins are still lively, but also silky. Smokey dark fruit, all components are there, probably can go another several years of evolution, but I like it right now. This is a nice! ( I remember trying this wine young, and it was hard and tannic about 10 years ago, this is currently at a sweet spot as the fruit is still lively). hold or drink.
92+
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1/27/2014 - Klugi Wine wrote: 93 Points
Bouquet of blackberries, vanilla, valrhona chocolate and some cedar, also some bacon and umami. On the palate a big mouthful of wine. The tannins are nicely integrated but will keep this wine going for at least another decade. But very nice drinking right now. Definitly a bordeaux not only for hardcore BDX freaks.
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6/28/2013 - miadelt Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark, dry, med to full bodied. Intense wine. Plenty of life.
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6/22/2013 - lebo9968@gmail.com Likes this wine: 92 Points
Medium to dark ruby red color. Ever so slight bricking around the edge. Wonderful nose of forest floor, tobacco, cedar, smokiness of a bon fire. Still tannic on the palate, but not too bad. Pretty well integrated. Some initial bite, but then the subtle fruit and lots of earthiness flows over the tongue. Moderately long palate of 30+ seconds. These notes are immediately after opening from temperature controlled cellar then performing a strainer / funnel decant. Took a sip immediately upon open and determined it definitely needed the decant. Pretty tight and harsh, but the decant made a huge difference.
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3/2/2013 - oldgrowth45 wrote:
Drank over two nights, with and without food. Very dark maroon color. Thin, fast legs. Potent nose full of lots of ripe fruit (mostly blueberries); a little tobacco, and maybe a little faint graphite on the periphery. Initially the palate seems a little flabby - big fruit, but lacking enough accompanying acidty to lift it up. The mid-palate gains some structure from loose-knit tannins, but there's still a little lingering flabbiness lurking in the background. The finish is monotone. There's concentration, and the fruit is clean, but overall this wine seems to lack verve and inspiration.
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10/4/2012 - notsim wrote: 92 Points
an hour decant, silky and exquisite :)
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5/2/2012 - Ken63 wrote: 92 Points
Drinking very well now
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4/25/2012 - Ken63 wrote: 90 Points
1 1/2 hour decant. Medium bodied dark purple color with smokey, dark thick chocolate, burnt orange flavors up front and blackberry, currant fruits emerging mid palate, noticeable but reasonably integrated tannins and medium long finish. Not with the complexity or layering of flavors of more prominent Bordeaux of course, but I found the flavors surprising and I quite liked it.Drinks well now with some decanting time, but it should drink well and somewhat differently in a few years Probably not to everyone's taste so I'll have to try it on some Bordeaux loving friends where I suspect it will get a mixed reaction
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4/12/2011 - Fred M wrote: 89 Points
Fruity and still going strong. Lots of Life left but pleasant to drink now.
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2/27/2010 - paulmase wrote: 91 Points
2000 Berliquet smokey pepper & cedar on the nose. Dark berries and spices on the palate drinking really nice aging has paid off 91 pts
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6/16/2008 - delice wrote: 83 Points
La Manche Wine Circle - Pomerol versus Saint Emilion (Le Rouge Palu): Big legs on a viscous black-red robe with magenta highlights. Very concentrated nose with a ripe damson ‘plum pudding’ fruit above a peppery spice, liquorice and a hint of tobacco. A big mouthful of cherry and concentrated black fruits, longish and firm. Huge potential to age. Nice.
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1/5/2008 - BailliSacks wrote: 90 Points
Deep and silky, very nice.
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4/5/2007 - Rudy Bibendum wrote: 90 Points
Lovely wine. Had the first glass with roast chicken (bottle had been open for an hour) and the glass was very nice. Decent fruit with a nice - but small - fragrance. Cellar temperature is 50 F - so the chill may have had something to do with the restrained profile at first. By the last glass 90 minutes later I was enjoying impressive aromas of coffee and chocolate and a touch or burnt vanilla. I should decant next time.
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4/1/2007 - Grinner wrote: 88 Points
I expected more given the vintage, just a nice medium bodied claret with reasonably good concentration/depth. A hint of cocoa to the earthy dark fruit flavors and tannins still obvious so maybe waiting a year or two for the next one makes sense.
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10/6/2006 - transpodude wrote: 90 Points
I gave this about 2 hours in the decanter. Well concentrated, tanins were not overwhelming and finsih was smooth. It got beter with another hour out of the bottle. I think it will improve for a few years, not sure it is a long hold.
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3/15/2006 - abmagary wrote: 80 Points
not much bouquet, nothing distinctive
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3/11/2006 - abmagary wrote:
smooth supple, good color, little bouquet. high quality but lacks distiction, maybe 88.
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2/23/2005 - lbosche wrote: 92 Points
A nice drink and a very enjoyable bottle of Bordeaux. Very refreshing with a simple family meal at home of pasta, hamburger and corn.
Yes this wine is a little young but it is showing well now and can only improve. Beautiful nose and seamless entry, mid-palate and finish.
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