Much better bottle than my last experience with this several years ago. Vibrant nose from the beginning. Everything was great upon opening, except the finish which was a little thin, with pronounced alcohol. But, everything, including the finish, improved with time, fantastic an hour after opening.
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Evaluating New Group of Old Bordeaux: Amazingly fresh, chock full of cedar, black currant, cassis with a mouthfeel that wouldn't quit. Kept improving over an hour after opening, a big surprise as one of the highlights, personal favorite bottle today.
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This seemed a bit past its prime though in part because it followed a 1982 Bahans Haut-Brion. Have another and will try again soon. A friend with me had this bottle recently and thought my bottle might have suffered from variation.
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Incredible impressive: I opened the botle at 15.00 h.. The wine was fragrant, the colour was weak. I tatsted a sip and I was not impressed, because the wine tasted (too) fragile. An hour later no improvement, but at 20.00h.I pourred something totally different out of the bottle. A deep and lively colour and a very subtle cedary nose, than a perfect balanced midtaste, deep, nearly masculin, ending in a perfect aftertaste, maybe not so long, but so pure, so elegant. Wow, in fact you cannot believe that is is a 1971 second wine. I still have two bottles!!
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Very classic Pauillac from a near-pristine looking bottle with fill just below the neck. Perhaps a little past its peak but still showing very well. A little cherry fruit still hovering near the surface, but this is mostly about secondary and some tertiary character. Forest floor, tobacco, iron, and pencil shavings swirl around the fruit on the nose, and the palate shows a lean and compact structure but by no means lacking. Plenty of stuffing here. Very nice.
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The wine improved considerably during 5 hours in the bottle (level base of neck). A real mature, vivied colour. In the nose the real cedarbox developped. The taste became rounder and rounder. Unbelievable that a second wine of 37 years old can reach such a height; from a fragile wine just after opening to a broadened and complex wine after several hours. I fortunately have some bottles to retaste. Drink the wine within the next years.
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A Latour - Les Forts tasting: a warm, deep red with a bit brown, tea leaves, minerals, less comcentrated, of course, than the Grand Vin, very pure, bit lean and very balanced.
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11/18/2023 - hprphf wrote: 91 Points
Not a very strong vintage, pencil box, thin. 91
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8/12/2021 - fournet wrote: 93 Points
Much better bottle than my last experience with this several years ago. Vibrant nose from the beginning. Everything was great upon opening, except the finish which was a little thin, with pronounced alcohol. But, everything, including the finish, improved with time, fantastic an hour after opening.
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7/16/2021 - SoundinBetween wrote:
Evaluating New Group of Old Bordeaux: Amazingly fresh, chock full of cedar, black currant, cassis with a mouthfeel that wouldn't quit. Kept improving over an hour after opening, a big surprise as one of the highlights, personal favorite bottle today.
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1/8/2014 - dhano wrote: 90 Points
Nose and taste of smoke asphalt. No tannin at all. Overall enjoyable
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12/12/2013 - fournet wrote: 90 Points
This seemed a bit past its prime though in part because it followed a 1982 Bahans Haut-Brion. Have another and will try again soon. A friend with me had this bottle recently and thought my bottle might have suffered from variation.
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4/13/2012 - FransS wrote: 95 Points
Incredible impressive: I opened the botle at 15.00 h.. The wine was fragrant, the colour was weak.
I tatsted a sip and I was not impressed, because the wine tasted (too) fragile. An hour later no improvement,
but at 20.00h.I pourred something totally different out of the bottle. A deep and lively colour and a very subtle cedary nose,
than a perfect balanced midtaste, deep, nearly masculin, ending in a perfect aftertaste, maybe not so long, but so pure, so
elegant. Wow, in fact you cannot believe that is is a 1971 second wine. I still have two bottles!!
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2/4/2012 - JLeader wrote: 92 Points
Very classic Pauillac from a near-pristine looking bottle with fill just below the neck. Perhaps a little past its peak but still showing very well. A little cherry fruit still hovering near the surface, but this is mostly about secondary and some tertiary character. Forest floor, tobacco, iron, and pencil shavings swirl around the fruit on the nose, and the palate shows a lean and compact structure but by no means lacking. Plenty of stuffing here. Very nice.
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12/7/2008 - FransS wrote: 91 Points
The wine improved considerably during 5 hours in the bottle (level base of neck). A real mature, vivied colour. In the nose the real cedarbox developped. The taste became rounder and rounder.
Unbelievable that a second wine of 37 years old can reach such a height; from a fragile wine just after opening to a broadened and complex wine after several hours.
I fortunately have some bottles to retaste. Drink the wine within the next years.
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2/11/1991 - FransS wrote: 89 Points
A Latour - Les Forts tasting: a warm, deep red with a bit brown, tea leaves, minerals, less comcentrated, of course, than the Grand Vin, very pure, bit lean and very balanced.
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