long gone. wasn't stored well, cork was almost completely soaked through, had lost almost all color, looked like a light rose. barely drinkable but not pleasant
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This was not quite as good as a '79 Kirwan I had a few days ago, but is nonetheless a good example of what great BDX can achieve in mediocre vintages. The nose was the high point, brimming with cedar, cassis, with dusty underbrush notes. The medium-bodied palate is a bit thin, but not tired, and the color remains a vibrant purple with little bricking. This particular bottle had a pristine low neck fill and a flawless cork, so likely on the upper end of what this can achieve with good storage.
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Nose 93-94. Taste 91. Maybe a bit of VA. A bit thin on the palate but still clearly a well stored and made wine. Different than the bottle I had a few wines prior that was one of the wotn at a 79 horizontal. This one had almost none of the Cordier funk, not much fruit left. But just a fantastic nose that kept me drinking the wine.
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Top shoulder fill, beautiful ruby-garnet color with no sign of bricking. Lovely savory nose of tobacco, shoe leather, forest floor, black plum and a bit of cedar spice. Tart and slightly vegetal, with good intensity and pleasant fruit. Drinking very well for this overlooked vintage.
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Wow this is insanely fresh for over 40. A little funky of course but still very fragrant with a nice nose of cedar box, cigar ash, dried black currant, mint and peppercorn. Still flesh on its bones, with a firm fruit core, sweet tannins and a velvety mouthfeel. It finishes tart and a bit delicate, with a wonderful graphite inflected finish. I’m so impressed by the longevity of this. It actually gained some weight with air, the mid palate becoming almost rich with a chewy plum aspect. This is so good.
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Birthday wines. 70s and 80s Gruaud can have a fair amount of variance, but this was great - still in it's prime with a lot of fruit (for a 41 year old wine, of course), but also a lot of cedar, cassis and tertiary notes. There's a touch more green than I sometimes get from Gruaud, but this is obviously cabernet, this is not a surprise. Overall, a really good bottle of claret without being great.
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Oh, there we go. No question this is left bank Bordeaux, but even having risked a 3 hour decant, the nose still explodes from the glass. Definitely a bit of green (Cordier?) funk but also a ton of cedar, cigar box and graphite - this is Bordeaux in its prime and with resolves tannins. The palate is still burly and this didn’t fade at all. This lacks complexity to be truly great, but it’s just a wonderful bottle in an otherwise often mediocre vintage. Served double blind to everyone else, and most guesses were mid to late 80s.
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The most rustic of the three BDX we opened. More vegetal notes, but still lovely dried fruit, charcoal and leather. More tannic and slightly more disjointed acid profile. Nevertheless, still a lovely btl.
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Château Gruaud-Larose Vertical (Knightsbridge and Abigail's): Medium nose still shows some youthful plum fruit, bell pepper and cigar. Palate starts with medium body and fruit that flashes sweet intensity. Herbs, ash, cigar and old leather. Fades on the finish. An overachiever.
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Gruaud Larose Tasting and Dinner (Northbrook, IL): Pristine bottle, fill well into the neck. Mature black cherry and plum with earth, green pepper and cigarbox hints. Moderate depth and length. Impeccable balance. Wonderful for the vintage.
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Deep, dark garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Forward, attractive & fragrant nose of mature, ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, blackberries, & cassis with overtones of classic cigar box notes of cedar & tobacco, floral notes of violets, musty/dusty, minty, pepper, earthy/loam, leather, herbs, spices, smoky, meaty, mushrooms, minerals & sous bois in the background. Medium-full bodied with a good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, mature, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, blackberries & cranberries with earthy/dusty, herbs, mushrooms, minerals, spices & a hint of oak. Lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and appears to be at or very close to its peak of development, so drink up soon. A distinctive & mature Claret.
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Double Magnum, 35th birthday of a friend (a wine lover). Great Bordeaux from a very difficult year. The top years are passed, but still in good years for consumption. A mature wine with nice earthy caracters and still some fruits (berrys)
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Another Saturday at Knightsbridge - mostly blind (Northbrook, IL): Served double blind to the tasting group alongside Groth 1990 Cabernet Reserve from Napa. Mature black cherry aromas and flavors with modest spice. Very good balance, textures. Easy for most tasters to identify as Bordeaux, but most thought from a younger, better vintage.
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From double magnum. Nose entirely dominated by a woodsy funk at first. Decanted and allowed to breathe, this opened up very quickly. Textbook "dirty" and "dark" mature Bordeaux aromas: cedar, leather, tobacco, sous bois, grandma's cupboard, barnyard, etc. The fruit was a little tired, but not terribly so. The finish showed a surprising and pleasant little tingle of tannin. After having had a noticably over-the-hill 1978 a few years ago, I feared this might suffer from being similarly superannuated. While this is very slightly over its peak, it still drinks respectably well, perhaps due to the salutary effects of the bottle size. Consume soon- tonight, if possible.
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Fill level was well into the neck. Popped and poured, then consumed over two nights. Tobacco aromas with modest black fruit and earth hints. Good balance of flavors between black cherry and earthy character, lots of charm, even if just modest intensity. Surprisingly this was basically the same on the 2nd night, perhaps just a little shorter.
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1979 Bordeaux horisontal (Oslo): Klar, mørk rød med innslag av oransje. Svært dyp og mørk nese med et floralt preg, lær og innsmigrende bærsødme. Meget bløt frukt her også med slank kropp og frisk syre. Fin lengde.
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Sampled 1/20/12. The fill was top shoulder. The cork was in quite good shape and a solid one piece. The color, however, was very rusty and the nose indicated it was well past peak. But the wine surprised me on the palate. Still some good black fruits and cassis, leather notes and sweet Oak. Of course, this wine was better 10 years ago, but I've been very impressed by the longevity of Gruaud Larose and I wanted to see how this Chateau fares in a less than stellar year. I was not disapppointed.
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Wine Education Service - Fine Old Bordeaux (LSE): Very dense, a ruddy dark brown. Vegetal nose (peas) with some fruit. Fruit with vegetal notes, balanced, some tannin, a stunning drink, excellent length.
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we drank this wine with a saddle of deer from scotland. It was stored perfectly and it was a DM... which really helps. Very much classic claret, only 12% in alcohol and therefore still having that nice red fruit going on. Even after all those years only the rim was orange brown but the middle was still bright red... all in all a great wine, not better then the 1978 but still a great drink with food. For lovers of classic claret...
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Drank with dinner and no formal notes taken. This was perfectly intact from a pristine bottle. Unfortunately, it was tasting over the hill. On initial open it was showing some fruit, cracked pepper, and mushrooms on the nose. Very light fruit was present on the palate, with some asparagus and the mushroom, with a really grippy, gritty texture. The finished lingered on, but it wasn't evolving at all, primarily showing some earthy mushroom components and the tannins. After this was in the glass for only 10 minutes it lost all of the fruit throughout, primarily leaving some textural elements but not really a tasty wine. A bit of a let down compared to some other recent '79s, and the scores here (which are mainly from quite a bit ago). Perhaps I'll try another, but I do suspect this is very much on the downward slope.
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Resolved tannins, more red fruit than black, fairly high acidity, more elegant than the typical Gruaud brawn. With time some mushroom and tobacco over the red cherry fruit. Pretty nice wine, though maybe lacking the verve and long finish of my favorite '79s. But the acidity and red fruits seem to me typical of the vintage, and this is good if not great.. B+/B
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shared with keith, jeean, pat and ellen at our traditional winter holiday season dinner. this was our first time together at Tuscan Sun in Tottenville. john, the proprietor/host was very accomodating. he had received the bottle a few days earlier and kept it standing up for us. opened this wine with the main course. this bottle was full fill. the cork, which is the longest i have ever seen, extracted intact. the wine appears to be at its apogee. it comes forth immediately with delicate bouquet of floral scents. smooth mouth feel. tannins fully resolved. it was a little too delicate to stand up to the barbecue style sauce on my roast pork. it was a much better match to pat's veal in a delicate butter sauce. the wine continued to show well throughout the meal. keith commented on the similarities between this and his '82 lafon-rochet even though they are from different communes. overall, the wine was most enjoyable. the quality it showed tonight far exceeds the expectations of the iniital professional reviews.
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Pale red/garnet with pronounced oranging towards the rim. Clean, fresh aromas on the nose with an ethereal sweetness. Damson and blueberry fruit, with mint and pine mixed in. Cranberry/lead pencils adding backbone. Hint of furniture polish. Flavoursome and with good weight in the mouth, but some rather green tobacco notes and in the back of the mouth a slightly bitter taste that I haven't experienced in previous bottles of this wine.
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Our host called this: “The French Dead Corpses Tasting”. (@ PV): Dusty bouquet which also shows some spiciness. On the palate a sweet start with ripe black fruit juice, some sweetness and also firm but good acidity. The tannin is a bit drying in the finish. Several tasting notes about this wine in CT and the wine is clearly on its way down. See my other notes and scores. For today I (blind) scored the wine 90 - 91.
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An easy afternoon with close friends (@ FD): Smoky and oak in the beautiful and complex bouquet. The tannin are mature and still sticky. Still very juicy as well. A textbook great Bordeaux wine.
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Christmas Wine Group Dinner hosted by Aniko. Showed a nice, earthy nose which led to a medium body of medium fruit that was pleasant to taste, earthy tones overshadowed the fruit in the mouth and on the finish. My #6 and Group #7.
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Very dark purple red, but with a very slightly hint of carmine on the edge. Really heavy complex bouquet with good black fruits, liquorice and elegant oak. Even a little backward. In the taste very juicy cassis, a lot of luxury oak and a lot of good sticky tannin and good acidity. Very long aftertaste with cassis and oak. Very full bodied. Altogether this is a truly great wine which needs more time in the bottle, but is already so beautiful. Complex, powerful and elegant at the same time.
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11/24/2023 - ssekdad wrote: flawed
long gone. wasn't stored well, cork was almost completely soaked through, had lost almost all color, looked like a light rose. barely drinkable but not pleasant
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8/20/2022 - GrapeScott wrote: 89 Points
This was not quite as good as a '79 Kirwan I had a few days ago, but is nonetheless a good example of what great BDX can achieve in mediocre vintages. The nose was the high point, brimming with cedar, cassis, with dusty underbrush notes. The medium-bodied palate is a bit thin, but not tired, and the color remains a vibrant purple with little bricking. This particular bottle had a pristine low neck fill and a flawless cork, so likely on the upper end of what this can achieve with good storage.
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5/26/2022 - Jd6725 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose 93-94. Taste 91. Maybe a bit of VA. A bit thin on the palate but still clearly a well stored and made wine. Different than the bottle I had a few wines prior that was one of the wotn at a 79 horizontal. This one had almost none of the Cordier funk, not much fruit left. But just a fantastic nose that kept me drinking the wine.
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1/29/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points
Tasted blind. Beautiful tertiary nose with farmyard, wet forest floor and spices. There is good fruit and melted tannins here. Lovely.
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10/17/2021 - GrapeScott wrote: 90 Points
Top shoulder fill, beautiful ruby-garnet color with no sign of bricking. Lovely savory nose of tobacco, shoe leather, forest floor, black plum and a bit of cedar spice. Tart and slightly vegetal, with good intensity and pleasant fruit. Drinking very well for this overlooked vintage.
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8/4/2021 - vinko84 wrote: 92 Points
There are not that many 1970"s Clarets that excite me but this has truly surprised me. Beautiful medium body with a long finish.
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1/5/2021 - rjmp96 Likes this wine:
Wow this is insanely fresh for over 40. A little funky of course but still very fragrant with a nice nose of cedar box, cigar ash, dried black currant, mint and peppercorn. Still flesh on its bones, with a firm fruit core, sweet tannins and a velvety mouthfeel. It finishes tart and a bit delicate, with a wonderful graphite inflected finish. I’m so impressed by the longevity of this. It actually gained some weight with air, the mid palate becoming almost rich with a chewy plum aspect. This is so good.
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11/9/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:
Birthday wines. 70s and 80s Gruaud can have a fair amount of variance, but this was great - still in it's prime with a lot of fruit (for a 41 year old wine, of course), but also a lot of cedar, cassis and tertiary notes. There's a touch more green than I sometimes get from Gruaud, but this is obviously cabernet, this is not a surprise. Overall, a really good bottle of claret without being great.
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5/16/2020 - marathonwines wrote:
Rated neutral by several. Strong musky scent, pleasant overall flavor
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1/6/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:
Oh, there we go. No question this is left bank Bordeaux, but even having risked a 3 hour decant, the nose still explodes from the glass. Definitely a bit of green (Cordier?) funk but also a ton of cedar, cigar box and graphite - this is Bordeaux in its prime and with resolves tannins. The palate is still burly and this didn’t fade at all. This lacks complexity to be truly great, but it’s just a wonderful bottle in an otherwise often mediocre vintage. Served double blind to everyone else, and most guesses were mid to late 80s.
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8/21/2019 - Aravind Asok wrote:
The most rustic of the three BDX we opened. More vegetal notes, but still lovely dried fruit, charcoal and leather. More tannic and slightly more disjointed acid profile. Nevertheless, still a lovely btl.
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7/2/2019 - j45 wrote:
Funkalicious!
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3/31/2017 - europat55 wrote: 91 Points
5 Decades of Gruaud Larose (Andre and Sabine's House, Mountain View, CA): Nose: A-/A. Palate: A-/A
My #7. Group's #2 (76 pts).
Correctly guessed as the '79 in the lineup.
Tasted blind.
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12/25/2016 - tiggerevnstn Likes this wine: 91 Points
Beautiful showing from a magnum bottle. Saved a half bottle to share later in the week at a mixed tasting.
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9/15/2016 - Nanda wrote: 90 Points
Château Gruaud-Larose Vertical (Knightsbridge and Abigail's): Medium nose still shows some youthful plum fruit, bell pepper and cigar. Palate starts with medium body and fruit that flashes sweet intensity. Herbs, ash, cigar and old leather. Fades on the finish. An overachiever.
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9/15/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Gruaud Larose Tasting and Dinner (Northbrook, IL): Pristine bottle, fill well into the neck. Mature black cherry and plum with earth, green pepper and cigarbox hints. Moderate depth and length. Impeccable balance. Wonderful for the vintage.
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8/6/2016 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 91 Points
Deep, dark garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Forward, attractive & fragrant nose of mature, ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, blackberries, & cassis with overtones of classic cigar box notes of cedar & tobacco, floral notes of violets, musty/dusty, minty, pepper, earthy/loam, leather, herbs, spices, smoky, meaty, mushrooms, minerals & sous bois in the background. Medium-full bodied with a good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, mature, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, blackberries & cranberries with earthy/dusty, herbs, mushrooms, minerals, spices & a hint of oak. Lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and appears to be at or very close to its peak of development, so drink up soon. A distinctive & mature Claret.
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11/10/2015 - joost wrote: 92 Points
from DM took 2 hours to open up and for the tannins to soften, beautiful classic claret
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10/31/2014 - kenv Likes this wine:
[From a half bottle.] Quite mature. Mulchy black fruit nose. Going over the hill. Nice up front, but too much oxidation in the finish. Drink up.
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9/26/2014 - petitblanc wrote: 90 Points
Old Wine Offline; 9/26/2014-9/27/2014 (The Room Off the Patio at Ruth's Chris, and My House): This was the thinnest of several Gruaud Larose tasted tonight, with ample tannins remaining, and a bit of heat. The underlying Gruaud Larose profile was clear, though, with sweet tobacco and peppers over fading dark fruits. Overall quite good.
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6/14/2014 - europat55 wrote: 92 Points
Fabulous Nose, as you would expect from a mature GL (A). Excellent palate, although a little bit tired (B+/B++).
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4/25/2014 - ASD Likes this wine: 91 Points
Double Magnum, 35th birthday of a friend (a wine lover). Great Bordeaux from a very difficult year. The top years are passed, but still in good years for consumption. A mature wine with nice earthy caracters and still some fruits (berrys)
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1/11/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Another Saturday at Knightsbridge - mostly blind (Northbrook, IL): Served double blind to the tasting group alongside Groth 1990 Cabernet Reserve from Napa. Mature black cherry aromas and flavors with modest spice. Very good balance, textures. Easy for most tasters to identify as Bordeaux, but most thought from a younger, better vintage.
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11/15/2013 - NineteenEightyTwo Likes this wine: 92 Points
From double magnum. Nose entirely dominated by a woodsy funk at first. Decanted and allowed to breathe, this opened up very quickly. Textbook "dirty" and "dark" mature Bordeaux aromas: cedar, leather, tobacco, sous bois, grandma's cupboard, barnyard, etc. The fruit was a little tired, but not terribly so. The finish showed a surprising and pleasant little tingle of tannin. After having had a noticably over-the-hill 1978 a few years ago, I feared this might suffer from being similarly superannuated. While this is very slightly over its peak, it still drinks respectably well, perhaps due to the salutary effects of the bottle size. Consume soon- tonight, if possible.
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10/1/2013 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Fill level was well into the neck. Popped and poured, then consumed over two nights. Tobacco aromas with modest black fruit and earth hints. Good balance of flavors between black cherry and earthy character, lots of charm, even if just modest intensity. Surprisingly this was basically the same on the 2nd night, perhaps just a little shorter.
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9/13/2013 - TheRikker wrote: 87 Points
Way past prime but held up surprisingly well. Classic aged Bordeaux but 10 years past its window.
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6/13/2013 - -E- wrote: 90 Points
1979 Bordeaux horisontal (Oslo): Klar, mørk rød med innslag av oransje. Svært dyp og mørk nese med et floralt preg, lær og innsmigrende bærsødme. Meget bløt frukt her også med slank kropp og frisk syre. Fin lengde.
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11/23/2012 - Zweder wrote: flawed
Boekenhoutskloof Winemakers dinner. (@ Bottles; Sas van Gent, Netherlands): Corked unfortunately. And it was a magnum :-(
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1/21/2012 - mxpbuy wrote: 89 Points
Sampled 1/20/12. The fill was top shoulder. The cork was in quite good shape and a solid one piece. The color, however, was very rusty and the nose indicated it was well past peak. But the wine surprised me on the palate. Still some good black fruits and cassis, leather notes and sweet Oak. Of course, this wine was better 10 years ago, but I've been very impressed by the longevity of Gruaud Larose and I wanted to see how this Chateau fares in a less than stellar year. I was not disapppointed.
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12/23/2011 - Flavito wrote: 93 Points
Just beautiful, classic. Brings back fond memories...
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11/28/2011 - tendring Likes this wine: 90 Points
Wine Education Service - Fine Old Bordeaux (LSE): Very dense, a ruddy dark brown.
Vegetal nose (peas) with some fruit.
Fruit with vegetal notes, balanced, some tannin, a stunning drink, excellent length.
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6/24/2011 - Paul D wrote:
Gruaud Larose at The Ledbury (The Ledbury, London): Savoury nose, worcester sauce and tomato, lean, firm palate, drinkable but not quite right. NR
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11/14/2010 - joost wrote: 92 Points
we drank this wine with a saddle of deer from scotland. It was stored perfectly and it was a DM... which really helps. Very much classic claret, only 12% in alcohol and therefore still having that nice red fruit going on. Even after all those years only the rim was orange brown but the middle was still bright red... all in all a great wine, not better then the 1978 but still a great drink with food. For lovers of classic claret...
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6/11/2010 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 88 Points
Drank with dinner and no formal notes taken. This was perfectly intact from a pristine bottle. Unfortunately, it was tasting over the hill. On initial open it was showing some fruit, cracked pepper, and mushrooms on the nose. Very light fruit was present on the palate, with some asparagus and the mushroom, with a really grippy, gritty texture. The finished lingered on, but it wasn't evolving at all, primarily showing some earthy mushroom components and the tannins. After this was in the glass for only 10 minutes it lost all of the fruit throughout, primarily leaving some textural elements but not really a tasty wine. A bit of a let down compared to some other recent '79s, and the scores here (which are mainly from quite a bit ago). Perhaps I'll try another, but I do suspect this is very much on the downward slope.
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8/2/2009 - DaleW wrote:
Resolved tannins, more red fruit than black, fairly high acidity, more elegant than the typical Gruaud brawn. With time some mushroom and tobacco over the red cherry fruit. Pretty nice wine, though maybe lacking the verve and long finish of my favorite '79s. But the acidity and red fruits seem to me typical of the vintage, and this is good if not great.. B+/B
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12/20/2008 - bacchus wrote: 90 Points
shared with keith, jeean, pat and ellen at our traditional winter holiday season dinner. this was our first time together at Tuscan Sun in Tottenville. john, the proprietor/host was very accomodating. he had received the bottle a few days earlier and kept it standing up for us. opened this wine with the main course. this bottle was full fill. the cork, which is the longest i have ever seen, extracted intact. the wine appears to be at its apogee. it comes forth immediately with delicate bouquet of floral scents. smooth mouth feel. tannins fully resolved. it was a little too delicate to stand up to the barbecue style sauce on my roast pork. it was a much better match to pat's veal in a delicate butter sauce. the wine continued to show well throughout the meal. keith commented on the similarities between this and his '82 lafon-rochet even though they are from different communes. overall, the wine was most enjoyable. the quality it showed tonight far exceeds the expectations of the iniital professional reviews.
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1/5/2008 - wineamateur wrote:
Pale red/garnet with pronounced oranging towards the rim. Clean, fresh aromas on the nose with an ethereal sweetness. Damson and blueberry fruit, with mint and pine mixed in. Cranberry/lead pencils adding backbone. Hint of furniture polish. Flavoursome and with good weight in the mouth, but some rather green tobacco notes and in the back of the mouth a slightly bitter taste that I haven't experienced in previous bottles of this wine.
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6/24/2005 - Zweder wrote: 91 Points
Our host called this: “The French Dead Corpses Tasting”. (@ PV): Dusty bouquet which also shows some spiciness. On the palate a sweet start with ripe black fruit juice, some sweetness and also firm but good acidity. The tannin is a bit drying in the finish. Several tasting notes about this wine in CT and the wine is clearly on its way down. See my other notes and scores. For today I (blind) scored the wine 90 - 91.
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5/1/2005 - winefool wrote: 93 Points
Red/garnet. Nice rich and complex. 5/05
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9/1/2001 - Zweder wrote: 94 Points
An easy afternoon with close friends (@ FD): Smoky and oak in the beautiful and complex bouquet. The tannin are mature and still sticky. Still very juicy as well. A textbook great Bordeaux wine.
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11/27/1999 - Zweder wrote: 96 Points
An easy afternoon with close friends and some great wines (@ My place): Deep red with a slightly brown edge. Complex bouquet; barnyard, oak, a bit dusty. Full bodied, soft, perfect juice and wood. Long juicy aftertaste. This wine is wonderful now and at its peak.
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12/13/1997 - Zweder wrote: 92 Points
Aged top Bordeaux with my local tasting club (@ My place): See other notes. Still fruity and still tannin with enough power for a few more years.
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4/12/1996 - peteng wrote:
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11/26/1994 - Zweder wrote: 94 Points
Bordeaux, St. Julien with a few extra's (@ My place): Really dark red. Expressive complex bouquet. Textbook Bordeaux. Full bodied rich and juicy. Good bitterness in the long aftertaste. Great wine!
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12/16/1990 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 83 Points
Christmas Wine Group Dinner hosted by Aniko. Showed a nice, earthy nose which led to a medium body of medium fruit that was pleasant to taste, earthy tones overshadowed the fruit in the mouth and on the finish. My #6 and Group #7.
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7/15/1988 - Zweder wrote: 93 Points
Very dark purple red, but with a very slightly hint of carmine on the edge. Really heavy complex bouquet with good black fruits, liquorice and elegant oak. Even a little backward. In the taste very juicy cassis, a lot of luxury oak and a lot of good sticky tannin and good acidity. Very long aftertaste with cassis and oak. Very full bodied. Altogether this is a truly great wine which needs more time in the bottle, but is already so beautiful. Complex, powerful and elegant at the same time.
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