Red and dark berries as well as some pleasant vanilla in the elegant bouquet. On the palate there is some development, red berries, pleasant acidity and round tannin. Really nice wine in its maturity stage, but no extreme hurry necessary.
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This has entered a very nice drinking plateau. Complex dark fruited and earthy nose with dense palate of cedar and earth with ripe cassis and some Indian spices. Very good.
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I popped and poured this one - to my regret. I'm sure it would have benefitted from decanting a few hours in advance. Lots of black currants and some leather and coffee in the nose. Needs a few more years in the cellar from, I think...
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The bottle variation of this case is perplexing, this was a good bottle though but it has a lot more density that the others that I have popped to date. Just shedding its youth, will hold for 10 years but should peak in 3-5
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W turkey tacos. Nice wine good color, nose and very pleasant on the palate, fruit and smoke. Good left bank bordeaux but not very good qpr. Left overs on day 2 were better. Will live 5 more yrs but good now. Medium body ( heavier on day 2)
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Bottles like this annoy me. This has a taste of rubber and also a fine powder in suspension. Too fine to settle as a sediment but there and dusty and drying on the palate. Why? Is this going through a stage of throwing a solid sediment or is it "falling apart" I don't know..?
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Notes d'élevage encore présentes. Robe grenat intense. Grande concentration. Fruit intense. Crème de cassis. Longueur moyenne. Encore fermé. A revoir dans 1 ou 2 ans.
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strangely different from the bottle tasted a week ago at salta. this one is tough and rubbery, unusual considering that it is ex-chateau and from the same case.
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10/20/2018 - Zweder wrote: 88 Points
Red and dark berries as well as some pleasant vanilla in the elegant bouquet. On the palate there is some development, red berries, pleasant acidity and round tannin. Really nice wine in its maturity stage, but no extreme hurry necessary.
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10/28/2017 - IlonaN wrote: 90 Points
This has entered a very nice drinking plateau. Complex dark fruited and earthy nose with dense palate of cedar and earth with ripe cassis and some Indian spices. Very good.
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3/16/2015 - kwaky wrote:
Was a bit too warm on opening which may have dulled the taste. Poured into a decanter at a restaurant.
Nice wine - just didn't sing at all - very subdued and could have been caused by the warm conditions.
No score given - need to try a different bottle.
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12/30/2014 - Kaerhoeg wrote: 89 Points
I popped and poured this one - to my regret. I'm sure it would have benefitted from decanting a few hours in advance. Lots of black currants and some leather and coffee in the nose. Needs a few more years in the cellar from, I think...
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12/31/2013 - bunhiong wrote:
The bottle variation of this case is perplexing, this was a good bottle though but it has a lot more density that the others that I have popped to date. Just shedding its youth, will hold for 10 years but should peak in 3-5
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11/14/2013 - Oliviermac wrote: flawed
Corked
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6/4/2013 - MichielV wrote: 89 Points
W turkey tacos. Nice wine good color, nose and very pleasant on the palate, fruit and smoke. Good left bank bordeaux but not very good qpr. Left overs on day 2 were better. Will live 5 more yrs but good now. Medium body ( heavier on day 2)
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12/4/2012 - Luckyb Likes this wine: 83 Points
Bottles like this annoy me. This has a taste of rubber and also a fine powder in suspension. Too fine to settle as a sediment but there and dusty and drying on the palate. Why? Is this going through a stage of throwing a solid sediment or is it "falling apart" I don't know..?
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6/19/2011 - jdaros wrote: 88 Points
Notes d'élevage encore présentes. Robe grenat intense. Grande concentration. Fruit intense. Crème de cassis. Longueur moyenne. Encore fermé. A revoir dans 1 ou 2 ans.
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4/24/2011 - bunhiong wrote:
this is closer to the bottle at salta *whew* still pretty closed, would be a waste to open the rest of the bottles
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11/19/2010 - bunhiong wrote:
strangely different from the bottle tasted a week ago at salta. this one is tough and rubbery, unusual considering that it is ex-chateau and from the same case.
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11/27/2009 - bunhiong wrote:
amazingly tight and closed, difficult to evaluate but gut feel is promising. suggest not to open until 2011
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