Left bank but clearly with higher merlot content. Nose has hint of smoke, leather and black tea. Palate is rounded, smooth but not a lot of fruits. Minimal tannins. Short finish. Enjoyable.
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Very pretty with aromas of violets, mineral, sweet earth and cedar. As you work a bit of air into the wine it shows some green bean and tobacco leaf aromas. It is silky and vinous in the mouth with no hard edges but fantastic energy and vitality. Drinking perfectly now but in no danger of decline in the near future.
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Tuscany Tasting: To mark the election of the new Pope. Some raisin, smooth and rounded, some depth, earthy, tannins all gone. The fruit is, however, a bid ‘dead’. On its way down. Only a minority was in Bordeaux.
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Smoke, truffle, earth, tobacco, tar, cedar and cassis notes make up the mature aromatics. Four square in texture, the wine finishes with short, earthy, spice and cherry tones.
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Wines on Thursday (Bellavitae): A low-fill bottle, so I wasn't expecting much, but it managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat and even though it had problems, the problems had nothing to do with the low fill. On uncorking, it's the identical twin of the '61 with its intense cigar tobacco bouquet. As it sits in the decanter the scent transforms into an unusual and unappetizing dead ringer for Flintstones vitamins, complete with the sugary sweetness and synthetic scratch-and-sniff type fruit. This, too, passes, but the wine pours very cloudy and feels correspondingly muddled. The acidity is spiky at first and the material is actually bigger and sweeter than the '61, a nice reminder that the difference between the great and the good is a matter of composition, not of size. It has a similar smokiness so some of the material is the same, it's just not put together nearly as well.
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4/29/2018 - Raizes Likes this wine: 92 Points
雪茄、烟熏的波尔多陈年风味主导，不过果味依然丰富，生命力依旧旺盛。酸度漂亮，单宁柔化，虽然是传统的格拉芙做派，但如果中段口感再丰满一点，香气和结构的搭配会让人想到隆河。好状态持续了两个小时左右，不算很长，但是峰顶的水平很高。
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10/18/2014 - MEKWINE Likes this wine: 87 Points
Deep. Tad dusty. Aromatic, dark berries, tobacco and leather with dark soil nose. resolved tannins leaving silky finish.
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5/25/2014 - dhlau wrote: 91 Points
Left bank but clearly with higher merlot content. Nose has hint of smoke, leather and black tea. Palate is rounded, smooth but not a lot of fruits. Minimal tannins. Short finish. Enjoyable.
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10/29/2013 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Very pretty with aromas of violets, mineral, sweet earth and cedar. As you work a bit of air into the wine it shows some green bean and tobacco leaf aromas. It is silky and vinous in the mouth with no hard edges but fantastic energy and vitality. Drinking perfectly now but in no danger of decline in the near future.
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3/15/2013 - LWI wrote: 88 Points
Tuscany Tasting: To mark the election of the new Pope. Some raisin, smooth and rounded, some depth, earthy, tannins all gone. The fruit is, however, a bid ‘dead’. On its way down. Only a minority was in Bordeaux.
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8/21/2010 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 Points
Smoke, truffle, earth, tobacco, tar, cedar and cassis notes make up the mature aromatics. Four square in texture, the wine finishes with short, earthy, spice and cherry tones.
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11/6/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 85 Points
Wines on Thursday (Bellavitae): A low-fill bottle, so I wasn't expecting much, but it managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat and even though it had problems, the problems had nothing to do with the low fill. On uncorking, it's the identical twin of the '61 with its intense cigar tobacco bouquet. As it sits in the decanter the scent transforms into an unusual and unappetizing dead ringer for Flintstones vitamins, complete with the sugary sweetness and synthetic scratch-and-sniff type fruit. This, too, passes, but the wine pours very cloudy and feels correspondingly muddled. The acidity is spiky at first and the material is actually bigger and sweeter than the '61, a nice reminder that the difference between the great and the good is a matter of composition, not of size. It has a similar smokiness so some of the material is the same, it's just not put together nearly as well.
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