1953 Dinner: Milestone Birthday (Gemma Fish + Oyster): The wine that I was the most excited about for the night since I do think 53 is a really special year and so perhaps this is an issue of expectations just too high. It was totally fine and drinking ok but not one of those perfect bottles and it was a good wine but perhaps not quite as great as I’d hoped it would be. The Margaux, Canon and Mouton all showed a bit better. Alas. Fun to try.
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Drank with the 1950. Where the 1950 was a little more classic in its perceptions, this wine was was loaded with more exotic, compelling qualities. It was light in color with some almost burgundy-like pink hues. It was airy and billowy -for 50+ year Bordeaux- with exotic spice and candy aromas. Spice-box, spice cake, perceptually bright red fruit, cardamom. Followed by lovely autumnal and earth perceptions. Terrific wine! 95
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Clearly more to offer here than the 1950. It is softer and looser to be sure, but richer in material just the same - there's a grippiness to it that almost comes across sticky, and the flavors are more exotic too, almost in the botanical family. Both this and the '50 still showed plenty of structure, this one more from the tannin than the taut acids, but the most apparent difference between them is sheer size.
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Magnum. Perfect bottle. B-stand. Perfect in colour for a mature Bordeaux. Still dark and virile. On the nose this wine offers chocolate, mocca, leather, stable, cigarrbox, graphite, horse-shit and mould/humus. Very complex scent. Everything is in balance here :-) Great length. Superb minerality. Peerless structure. The roman poet Ausonius must be proud and smile in heaven. This wine put a smile on my face, and I just sit there and look silly! 97 - 98 points.
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Exotic antique spice box aromas which came alive briefly after about 20 minutes in the decanter. Flavors of cedar, mint, and sweet raspberry. Short finish. Obviously a bottle a bit past its prime, but a wonderful experience none the less: we were able to share a glass with Jacques Pepin and taking this great chef and gentleman back in time to his apprenticeship days was a once-in-a-lifetime treat. It's tough to detach the wine's taste from this wine experience, but my best shot would be 89 points. (Fill level just into the neck, slight bricking on the edges but still mostly vibrant color.)
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12/22/2023 - MC2 Wines wrote:
1953 Dinner: Milestone Birthday (Gemma Fish + Oyster): The wine that I was the most excited about for the night since I do think 53 is a really special year and so perhaps this is an issue of expectations just too high. It was totally fine and drinking ok but not one of those perfect bottles and it was a good wine but perhaps not quite as great as I’d hoped it would be. The Margaux, Canon and Mouton all showed a bit better. Alas. Fun to try.
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11/18/2023 - hprphf wrote: 93 Points
53 flight. Better than the Latour, graceful but also on the older side. 93
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4/14/2018 - G_H wrote: 95 Points
Annual Richter Extravaganza (All bottles out of magnums) (Farnsburg): Soft, herbal notes, sunday roast, grandmas medicine cabinet, beautiful elegance, extremely long, good acidity
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5/21/2016 - G_H wrote: 97 Points
Richter Raritäten Degustation Volume IV - Magnum Edition (all wine out of Magnum): Nuts, leather, sweetness, very dense and warm wine. Opulence that just oozes right bank. Well, I just love this!!
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2/8/2014 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine: 95 Points
Drank with the 1950. Where the 1950 was a little more classic in its perceptions, this wine was was loaded with more exotic, compelling qualities. It was light in color with some almost burgundy-like pink hues. It was airy and billowy -for 50+ year Bordeaux- with exotic spice and candy aromas. Spice-box, spice cake, perceptually bright red fruit, cardamom. Followed by lovely autumnal and earth perceptions. Terrific wine! 95
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2/8/2014 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 92 Points
Clearly more to offer here than the 1950. It is softer and looser to be sure, but richer in material just the same - there's a grippiness to it that almost comes across sticky, and the flavors are more exotic too, almost in the botanical family. Both this and the '50 still showed plenty of structure, this one more from the tannin than the taut acids, but the most apparent difference between them is sheer size.
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10/7/2012 - dcwino wrote: 89 Points
Old Burg and Bordeaux at the Capital Grille Tysons (Capital Grille Tysons): A bit better than the 52 but also advanced. A hint of black fruits, cedar, chocolate, fruit cakes and earth. A bit short finish. Once again had a better bottle.
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6/2/2012 - Tenuta Stefan wrote: 97 Points
Magnum. Perfect bottle. B-stand. Perfect in colour for a mature Bordeaux. Still dark and virile.
On the nose this wine offers chocolate, mocca, leather, stable, cigarrbox, graphite, horse-shit and mould/humus. Very complex scent.
Everything is in balance here :-) Great length. Superb minerality. Peerless structure. The roman poet Ausonius must be proud and smile in heaven.
This wine put a smile on my face, and I just sit there and look silly! 97 - 98 points.
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10/22/2008 - babnik wrote: 89 Points
Exotic antique spice box aromas which came alive briefly after about 20 minutes in the decanter. Flavors of cedar, mint, and sweet raspberry. Short finish. Obviously a bottle a bit past its prime, but a wonderful experience none the less: we were able to share a glass with Jacques Pepin and taking this great chef and gentleman back in time to his apprenticeship days was a once-in-a-lifetime treat. It's tough to detach the wine's taste from this wine experience, but my best shot would be 89 points. (Fill level just into the neck, slight bricking on the edges but still mostly vibrant color.)
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2/1/2005 - RWM wrote:
The bottle is top-shoulder
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