Dark and red berries, a light dose of pleasant oak, firm acidity and tannin. The wine is still a few years too young. Try next bottle in 2026 or 2027. 89 - 90+
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How is this still happening nowadays, disappointing but I’ve opened another and that one is okay and fingers crossed for the rest, which I will drink sooner rather than later. The bottles have had very good cellarage conditions so the TCA is from source
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Nose: Gravel, mint, black currant, leather, oak, warm bread.
Palate: Soft entry with a nice balance, drying tannins that are fairly subdued. Nice light fruit throughout, the mid-palate also has some oak and leather notes. Aftertaste has fruit and an aromatic character.
This needed the five hour decant as it is still quite austere and tannic. Lots of cassis on the nose but a sophisticated wine with a core of black fruit that is only going to get better with time.
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Decanted for 60 min, ready to drink, a very fine and delicate wine, from the Northern part of Medoc, near Lesparre, where we had one night at a low class hotel back in 1983. The wine has all it takes to love and drink it. Good Q/P too♥️🇫🇷🍷
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Rather heavy on the paprika and pencil shavings. 3 years from window, maybe more. Very nice tannin. Not a bad wine if you ask me! For sure will improve.
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The oak profile resembles a well stored Rioja. Mostly dark berries, mocha and useable acidity for now - young. Store some more if you want a more complex wine. Somewhat one dimensional, if you ask me.
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Solid red from Medoc. intense colour. Black fruits, cassis and slight mocca in the nose. Intense taste with high consentration, quite intene tanins and strong acidity, a little bit to harsh, slight mocca. Need much more time in the celler. This well made Medoc is a littel overpriced. Well done but not better than other Cru Bourgeois from Haut-Medo for half Price. Good red but to expensive. Wait till 2024/2025 for drinking this Medoc.
PnP, consumed over 3 hours. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with aromas of cigar box, spice, cassis, and black cherry with subtle hints of dark flowers - lavender. Palate: Dry, medium+ acid and tannin, medium+ intensity, medium+ body, 14% abv with flavors of leather, spice, and cassis with a medium+ finish. Overall a very good wine excelling in intensity and length, slightly out of balance lacking the fruit to overcome the higher levels of acid and tannin.
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Delicious wine, easy to enjoy. Deep purple color, tastes of Fresh berries and leather, with a slight Green grasss taste in back end. Fine and smooth tannins. This will age for many more years
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NOSE: creosote, iodine, cherry jam, prune, and rinsed slate. MOUTH: astonishing freshness characterizes slowly relinquished black fruit. Smart, tailored tannins govern the event. Gripping, rigid, structural mesh allows disciplined expressions of weeping fruit and earth flavor: black raspberry, morello cherries, licorice, mint, limestone, and graphite. Abundant sweetness rallies as the bottle drains, paired with definitive patty melt. I'll need a few more bottles to drink after 2030.
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Deep dark inky purple color and biting tannins initially out of the bottle. Let it decant for two hours. Smell of leather and dirt. Taste has evolved with leather, bitter cherry, spice and more refined tannins. The wine has good mouth feel but is reluctant to offer fruit, perhaps will integrate more nicely in a few more years. Good value.
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Lack of fruit and very acidic. Tannins still bite even after a 3 hours decant. Would probably need some more years but doubt the material will show its nose in the future. Plenty of other better stuff out there.
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By the glass. From the same owners as Leoville Les Cases. Elegant nose with lactic aromas of red and black berries. Balanced and quite long in the mouth, with density and texture of cassis cream. It could sleep another five years.
Por copas. De los mismos dueños que Leoville Les Cases. Elegante en nariz con aromas lácticos de bayas rojas y negras. Equilibrado y bastante largo en boca, con densidad y textura de crema de cassis. Podría dormir otro lustro.
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Color: Transparent/deep ruby/purple. Nose: Savory, Herbaceous. Some red fruit. A bit subdued. Mouth: A tad more fruit than on the nose. It has an almost inky texture. Finely grained tannins. The alc. is only slightly noticeable (14%). Quite short and not that expressive. Perhaps it is in its dumb phase right now. This score is for the wine today and not for its potential. After a while of breathing it is getting better. There are no signs of aging whatsoever. I will taste the next bottle in a year. After having retasted several hours later the wine has improved. Hence 2 more points.
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Costco purchase today. Poured through Venturi. Young black fruit and tannic on the nose. Medium body with black berry, astringent tannins, medium finish. Alcohol present but not overpowering. Served with roast chicken, braised cabbage and celery root salad. Too young and tannic for this meal. Needs 3 years in the cellar.
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Medium body, nice bouquet, tannic with good fruit, a bit disjointed but the wine drank easily with complex flavors at each sip, drank with tuna sushi, swordfish and assorted veggies, the wine worked with the food as it still young is relatively light on its feet, enjoyed and would drink again.
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Deep ruby red colour. Medium nose with red cherry, ripe blackcurrant, leather and cedar. Medium taste of ripe red cherry, ripe blackcurrant, ripe blackberry, leather, cedar and tobacco. Long and dry finish. High acidity. High tannins. Medium body. A very good Medoc that feels closed and immature now, but has great potential. Store at least five more years. Goes well with beef or lamb.
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Home alone tonight. Enjoying 3 streaming hockey games, a decent steak, and the 2016 Potensac I just found at Costco for $25.00 (after the 10% discount). I am so happy to find such a clean, nicely structured, round and full bodied wine. Very young but enjoyable to drink now. Smooth texture with graphite and black fruit that come through strongly. As it enters its third hour of being open a very nice and distinct lead pencil nose emerges, which I truly love. A fruity lead pencil, if such an aroma exists. Black currant and wood. Like with so many others, this reminds me of why I prefer Bordeaux over California Cabs. Each time I go back to it I get a different set of aromas and tastes. An interesting wine. I give it a 91/92 now but I think it has upward potential. I really like this wine. At $25 it is a steal.
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Structured, dense and chewy, with ample tannins that are perfectly ripe and help to prolong the flavor. Still young and burly, with a flavor profile that veers towards young and savory - coffee, bitter chocolate, iron, graphite. There's a beautiful core of sweet cherry underneath - high toned, almost sappy - needs time. Great winemaking - balance of sweet and savory, dry but not astringent, fresh and lively but serious as well. Old school styled and delicious.
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Deep puple-ruby, translucent, narrowly spaced tears @14% abv. Black fruit, sous bois, cigar leaves. Dry medium fresh acidity, medium(+) taut tannin, medium(+) alcohol and medium-medium(+) body. Cherry, leather, tobaccoo the palate. Beautiful tight and elegant Medoc, good length with compact and fresh finish. Very good QPR. Will buy more; has 5-10 year cellaring potential. Excellent.
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With a classic combination of cigar box, forest floor and cassis, the wine is full-bodied, tannic, firm and fresh, Structured to age, give it at least a decade for the wine to soften, developing complexities and softness.
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Somewhat four square, but refined. Nice reddish fruit on nose and palate. Quite fresh and primary. Some vanilla on back end that needs to integrate. Fine polished tannins. Needs 5+ years. Mid weight. Strong, but at $30 meets doesn’t exceed expectations.
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My first taste of 2016 Bordeaux! They might need some time to settle in, as the fruit here still has a streak of straight-from-the-fermentation-vat freshness, bright and redolent with framboise. The structure on the other hand is fully developed and features some serious thick-skinned tannins. Leftovers 2 days later have brought out some metal shavings on the back end.
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Northern Médoc sweet spots: pricey and not so pricey (The Médoc): Lovely nose, with juicy fruit, red and black. There is more than your usual elegance from this estate, as the winemaking has gotten more fine tuned. Blending 44% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, this wine clocks in at 13.8% alcohol, with an IPT of 75 and a pH of 3.48. Bottled in April, it is a bit closed now, but that is normal. What is foremost important is the suave nature that you get from this humble AOC Médoc. I would recommend purchasing magnum formats to serve at upscale garden parties or any parties, over the next 5-15 years. Magnums require more bottle aging, so crack it open in, say, 2023 for an early drinking window and pour away. The magnum price lies between $50 and $60 and will reward you more than that. For more info, pics and video: http://wine-chronicles.com/blog/northern-medoc-2016-bottle/
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Dense, powerful, round and classic, this wine is ripe with character, weight, tannin and the structure to age. Best vintage of Potensac I've ever tasted.
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Bargain alert! Here we have a wine that punches well above its weight. Cool blueberry fruit, balanced, rich yet streamlined. A dark color with blackberry on the palate, yet with fine lift on the finish. Nearly 14 per cent alcohol but not heavy. At 30% new oak, excellent balance. Over 55 hectoliters per hectare so the yields are generous. This should not be too expensive and based on the barrel sample, I cannot recommend it enough. Just over half went into this as a first wine, at 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and the rest Petit Verdot. Buy magnums for parties 10 years from now, or buy single bottles that will provide pleasure starting in 2021. 90-93
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3/19/2024 - Zweder Likes this wine: 90 Points
Monthly Tuesday group "The Dead Sparrow": Bordeaux vs Bolgheri: Dark berries and some oak in the bouquet. On the palate juicy red and dark berries and black plums, well integrated oak, firm acidity and sticky tannin. Need more ageing. 90+
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3/11/2024 - Zweder wrote: 90 Points
Dark and red berries, a light dose of pleasant oak, firm acidity and tannin. The wine is still a few years too young. Try next bottle in 2026 or 2027. 89 - 90+
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2/20/2024 - Voodoo_Champagne Likes this wine:
This time prolonged decanted for 2 hours, pure bliss .
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2/6/2024 - Timmyd wrote: flawed
How is this still happening nowadays, disappointing but I’ve opened another and that one is okay and fingers crossed for the rest, which I will drink sooner rather than later. The bottles have had very good cellarage conditions so the TCA is from source
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1/20/2024 - Voodoo_Champagne Likes this wine:
Decanted for 30 min, Fine tuned Medoc.
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12/2/2023 - Ozric Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose: Gravel, mint, black currant, leather, oak, warm bread.
Palate: Soft entry with a nice balance, drying tannins that are fairly subdued. Nice light fruit throughout, the mid-palate also has some oak and leather notes. Aftertaste has fruit and an aromatic character.
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11/25/2023 - burlingtonm Likes this wine: 90 Points
This needed the five hour decant as it is still quite austere and tannic. Lots of cassis on the nose but a sophisticated wine with a core of black fruit that is only going to get better with time.
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11/24/2023 - Voodoo_Champagne Likes this wine:
Decanted for 60 min, ready to drink, a very fine and delicate wine, from the Northern part of Medoc, near Lesparre, where we had one night at a low class hotel back in 1983. The wine has all it takes to love and drink it. Good Q/P too♥️🇫🇷🍷
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10/21/2023 - StBlGT wrote: flawed
Corked. NR.
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8/25/2023 - Martin_G wrote: 90 Points
Rather heavy on the paprika and pencil shavings. 3 years from window, maybe more. Very nice tannin. Not a bad wine if you ask me! For sure will improve.
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7/12/2023 - fraundor wrote: 89 Points
- Garnet color.
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7/1/2023 - Richard Holmes Likes this wine: 90 Points
Red fruit, nice acidity, oak barely noticeable, medium plus intensity. Very enjoyable.
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6/29/2023 - guitarkim Likes this wine: 91 Points
Great value!
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5/12/2023 - DjKassettspiller Likes this wine: 86 Points
The oak profile resembles a well stored Rioja. Mostly dark berries, mocha and useable acidity for now - young. Store some more if you want a more complex wine. Somewhat one dimensional, if you ask me.
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4/27/2023 - Flatrate wrote: 88 Points
Solid red from Medoc. intense colour. Black fruits, cassis and slight mocca in the nose. Intense taste with high consentration, quite intene tanins and strong acidity, a little bit to harsh, slight mocca. Need much more time in the celler. This well made Medoc is a littel overpriced. Well done but not better than other Cru Bourgeois from Haut-Medo for half Price. Good red but to expensive. Wait till 2024/2025 for drinking this Medoc.
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11/3/2022 - prasm wrote: 89 Points
PnP, consumed over 3 hours. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with aromas of cigar box, spice, cassis, and black cherry with subtle hints of dark flowers - lavender. Palate: Dry, medium+ acid and tannin, medium+ intensity, medium+ body, 14% abv with flavors of leather, spice, and cassis with a medium+ finish. Overall a very good wine excelling in intensity and length, slightly out of balance lacking the fruit to overcome the higher levels of acid and tannin.
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10/4/2022 - MAC49 wrote: 93 Points
Delicious wine, easy to enjoy. Deep purple color, tastes of Fresh berries and leather, with a slight Green grasss taste in back end. Fine and smooth tannins. This will age for many more years
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7/17/2022 - PBK25a wrote:
Heel lekker , zeker voor herhaling vatbaar (Dinner met de bovenburen , bij de Pissaladière)
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2/17/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points
NOSE: creosote, iodine, cherry jam, prune, and rinsed slate. MOUTH: astonishing freshness characterizes slowly relinquished black fruit. Smart, tailored tannins govern the event. Gripping, rigid, structural mesh allows disciplined expressions of weeping fruit and earth flavor: black raspberry, morello cherries, licorice, mint, limestone, and graphite. Abundant sweetness rallies as the bottle drains, paired with definitive patty melt. I'll need a few more bottles to drink after 2030.
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2/4/2022 - MAC49 wrote: 86 Points
Deep dark inky purple color and biting tannins initially out of the bottle. Let it decant for two hours. Smell of leather and dirt. Taste has evolved with leather, bitter cherry, spice and more refined tannins. The wine has good mouth feel but is reluctant to offer fruit, perhaps will integrate more nicely in a few more years. Good value.
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10/22/2021 - SylMauduit Does not like this wine: 87 Points
Lack of fruit and very acidic. Tannins still bite even after a 3 hours decant. Would probably need some more years but doubt the material will show its nose in the future. Plenty of other better stuff out there.
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10/12/2021 - Tigrou wrote:
Bon mais pas impressionnant, à re-goûter of course
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9/16/2021 - Cac543 Does not like this wine: 85 Points
Bland. Nothing special
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5/23/2021 - Harley1199 Likes this wine:
By the glass. From the same owners as Leoville Les Cases. Elegant nose with lactic aromas of red and black berries. Balanced and quite long in the mouth, with density and texture of cassis cream. It could sleep another five years.
Por copas. De los mismos dueños que Leoville Les Cases. Elegante en nariz con aromas lácticos de bayas rojas y negras. Equilibrado y bastante largo en boca, con densidad y textura de crema de cassis. Podría dormir otro lustro.
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4/15/2021 - wineaficionado Likes this wine: 88 Points
Color: Transparent/deep ruby/purple. Nose: Savory, Herbaceous. Some red fruit. A bit subdued. Mouth: A tad more fruit than on the nose. It has an almost inky texture. Finely grained tannins. The alc. is only slightly noticeable (14%). Quite short and not that expressive. Perhaps it is in its dumb phase right now. This score is for the wine today and not for its potential. After a while of breathing it is getting better. There are no signs of aging whatsoever. I will taste the next bottle in a year. After having retasted several hours later the wine has improved. Hence 2 more points.
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12/13/2020 - David Hauser Likes this wine: 89 Points
Costco purchase today. Poured through Venturi. Young black fruit and tannic on the nose. Medium body with black berry, astringent tannins, medium finish. Alcohol present but not overpowering. Served with roast chicken, braised cabbage and celery root salad. Too young and tannic for this meal. Needs 3 years in the cellar.
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8/1/2020 - mwneil Likes this wine: 92 Points
Medium body, nice bouquet, tannic with good fruit, a bit disjointed but the wine drank easily with complex flavors at each sip, drank with tuna sushi, swordfish and assorted veggies, the wine worked with the food as it still young is relatively light on its feet, enjoyed and would drink again.
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4/20/2020 - SuperSomm wrote:
Deep ruby red colour. Medium nose with red cherry, ripe blackcurrant, leather and cedar. Medium taste of ripe red cherry, ripe blackcurrant, ripe blackberry, leather, cedar and tobacco. Long and dry finish. High acidity. High tannins. Medium body. A very good Medoc that feels closed and immature now, but has great potential. Store at least five more years. Goes well with beef or lamb.
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3/10/2020 - Ianjaig Does not like this wine: 86 Points
(GG Tasting 1 Glass) - Still find Potensac's to be lacking in depth and somewhat thin. Easy drinking but also quite bland.
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2/20/2020 - Cincinnatus Likes this wine: 91 Points
Home alone tonight. Enjoying 3 streaming hockey games, a decent steak, and the 2016 Potensac I just found at Costco for $25.00 (after the 10% discount). I am so happy to find such a clean, nicely structured, round and full bodied wine. Very young but enjoyable to drink now. Smooth texture with graphite and black fruit that come through strongly. As it enters its third hour of being open a very nice and distinct lead pencil nose emerges, which I truly love. A fruity lead pencil, if such an aroma exists. Black currant and wood. Like with so many others, this reminds me of why I prefer Bordeaux over California Cabs. Each time I go back to it I get a different set of aromas and tastes. An interesting wine. I give it a 91/92 now but I think it has upward potential. I really like this wine. At $25 it is a steal.
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1/24/2020 - Hanibal wrote: 90 Points
good potential
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11/27/2019 - DanR wrote: 92 Points
Structured, dense and chewy, with ample tannins that are perfectly ripe and help to prolong the flavor. Still young and burly, with a flavor profile that veers towards young and savory - coffee, bitter chocolate, iron, graphite. There's a beautiful core of sweet cherry underneath - high toned, almost sappy - needs time. Great winemaking - balance of sweet and savory, dry but not astringent, fresh and lively but serious as well. Old school styled and delicious.
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11/10/2019 - Barolo Raymond Likes this wine: 91 Points
Deep puple-ruby, translucent, narrowly spaced tears @14% abv. Black fruit, sous bois, cigar leaves. Dry medium fresh acidity, medium(+) taut tannin, medium(+) alcohol and medium-medium(+) body. Cherry, leather, tobaccoo the palate. Beautiful tight and elegant Medoc, good length with compact and fresh finish.
Very good QPR. Will buy more; has 5-10 year cellaring potential.
Excellent.
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9/21/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 91 Points
With a classic combination of cigar box, forest floor and cassis, the wine is full-bodied, tannic, firm and fresh, Structured to age, give it at least a decade for the wine to soften, developing complexities and softness.
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9/6/2019 - MathiasHG Likes this wine: 89 Points
Notes of spices.
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7/28/2019 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Somewhat four square, but refined. Nice reddish fruit on nose and palate. Quite fresh and primary. Some vanilla on back end that needs to integrate. Fine polished tannins. Needs 5+ years. Mid weight. Strong, but at $30 meets doesn’t exceed expectations.
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3/7/2019 - curtr Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very good year from this property. Nice depth and value. Try again in 5 years.
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2/20/2019 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 89 Points
My first taste of 2016 Bordeaux! They might need some time to settle in, as the fruit here still has a streak of straight-from-the-fermentation-vat freshness, bright and redolent with framboise. The structure on the other hand is fully developed and features some serious thick-skinned tannins. Leftovers 2 days later have brought out some metal shavings on the back end.
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11/12/2018 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 92 Points
Northern Médoc sweet spots: pricey and not so pricey (The Médoc): Lovely nose, with juicy fruit, red and black. There is more than your usual elegance from this estate, as the winemaking has gotten more fine tuned. Blending 44% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, this wine clocks in at 13.8% alcohol, with an IPT of 75 and a pH of 3.48. Bottled in April, it is a bit closed now, but that is normal. What is foremost important is the suave nature that you get from this humble AOC Médoc. I would recommend purchasing magnum formats to serve at upscale garden parties or any parties, over the next 5-15 years. Magnums require more bottle aging, so crack it open in, say, 2023 for an early drinking window and pour away. The magnum price lies between $50 and $60 and will reward you more than that. For more info, pics and video: http://wine-chronicles.com/blog/northern-medoc-2016-bottle/
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4/29/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 91 Points
Dense, powerful, round and classic, this wine is ripe with character, weight, tannin and the structure to age. Best vintage of Potensac I've ever tasted.
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4/1/2017 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine:
Bargain alert! Here we have a wine that punches well above its weight. Cool blueberry fruit, balanced, rich yet streamlined. A dark color with blackberry on the palate, yet with fine lift on the finish. Nearly 14 per cent alcohol but not heavy. At 30% new oak, excellent balance. Over 55 hectoliters per hectare so the yields are generous. This should not be too expensive and based on the barrel sample, I cannot recommend it enough. Just over half went into this as a first wine, at 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and the rest Petit Verdot. Buy magnums for parties 10 years from now, or buy single bottles that will provide pleasure starting in 2021. 90-93
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