Beautiful nose of blueberry jam. Palate is tannic and chalky with plenty of licorice, leather, and earth. I didn’t decant. Definitely needs 2 hour decant. Good stuff.
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Dark almost opaque. PnP…. Definitely needs a decant. Dark fruit, plum, currant, dark cocoa. Round giving to its 90% merlot. Still very young. Fruit a bit upfront. Day three under gas was much better. Fruit coming into more balance with structured background… good potential.
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Decanted abt 15mins....youthful purplish red hue on initial pour but however on swirling reveals an aged wine...blackcurrant,prune notes w mild vanilla tones...well balanced w alc 14.5 % but short finish w ?bitter notes..flavours did become more pronounced after 30mins but finish still short
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Didn't decant, breathed in bottle, for about 4 hours
Initially a bit of chocolate and blackcurrant on the nose, a good deal of vanilla as well. Tannins took about 30 minutes to kick in, but weren't well integrated until the one hour mark. Prior to that, the transition from tannins to finish was thin. Eventually the nose was dominated by prunes.
Overall, I didn't find this journey so compelling.
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Still youthful, with its floral, stone and sweet, ripe, dark red fruit character still in full force. The wine is coming around, but there is a firmness in the tannins that demand you give this wine between 5-10 more years of flavor development.
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Tannic, structured and firm, this normally, sensuously textured wine is more interesting on the nose than the palate with its earthy, espresso, cocoa, black plum, spice and stone aromatics. This is going to need to soften, and even then it might not compete with many of the more generous years.
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7/2/2023 - Sperls Likes this wine: 94 Points
From magnum. Pretty wow. Still somewhat primary dark fruit but now with interesting spice, leather and pencil and integrated tannins, medium+ finish.
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12/22/2021 - winecoffee wrote: 92 Points
Beautiful nose of blueberry jam. Palate is tannic and chalky with plenty of licorice, leather, and earth. I didn’t decant. Definitely needs 2 hour decant. Good stuff.
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6/16/2021 - ovenmitt wrote: 89 Points
Dark almost opaque. PnP…. Definitely needs a decant. Dark fruit, plum, currant, dark cocoa. Round giving to its 90% merlot. Still very young. Fruit a bit upfront. Day three under gas was much better. Fruit coming into more balance with structured background… good potential.
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5/8/2021 - dropsofgod wrote: 90 Points
Decanted abt 15mins....youthful purplish red hue on initial pour but however on swirling reveals an aged wine...blackcurrant,prune notes w mild vanilla tones...well balanced w alc 14.5 % but short finish w ?bitter notes..flavours did become more pronounced after 30mins but finish still short
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6/1/2020 - flah00 wrote: 88 Points
Didn't decant, breathed in bottle, for about 4 hours
Initially a bit of chocolate and blackcurrant on the nose, a good deal of vanilla as well. Tannins took about 30 minutes to kick in, but weren't well integrated until the one hour mark. Prior to that, the transition from tannins to finish was thin. Eventually the nose was dominated by prunes.
Overall, I didn't find this journey so compelling.
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5/25/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points
Still youthful, with its floral, stone and sweet, ripe, dark red fruit character still in full force. The wine is coming around, but there is a firmness in the tannins that demand you give this wine between 5-10 more years of flavor development.
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11/16/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points
Tannic, structured and firm, this normally, sensuously textured wine is more interesting on the nose than the palate with its earthy, espresso, cocoa, black plum, spice and stone aromatics. This is going to need to soften, and even then it might not compete with many of the more generous years.
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6/8/2010 - Rupert wrote: 90 Points
Chateau Pavie vertical 1959 to 2006 (Institute of Directors, London): Big and spicy, dense and grippy, a savoury edge, finishes very dry
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