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2018 Château Pavie Macquin
5/19/2024 - ERU wrote: 95 Points
Splash decanted 7 hours. Too soon for this? Yes, but I have multiple bottles, so wanted to give it a test run. Very reticent until the 7-hour mark, then opened enough to be very enjoyable. More cellar time is needed to soften these tannins, but the plushness still came through after extended air. Lovely bottle of wine.
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2015 Alain Voge Cornas Les Vieilles Vignes
5/14/2024 - ERU wrote: 93 Points
Decanted 11 hours. Needed all of them. The tannins are still rather assertive, but the bottle did offer up pleasure. The nose is classic wet rock Cornas. Palate is a bowl of unripened red and black fruits, minerality, and black olives.
Solid bottle of wine that has tremendous potential. In another handful of years, we could be in a sweet spot.
You know, dear fellow CTers, it occurs to me that we have a decided advantage over the rest of the population. Consider: I am an adequate to enthusiastic parent, a spouse who’s partner still occasionally makes me weak in the knees, a fierce dog lover, and a best friend. Why do I primarily wish to remain as healthy and cognizant as possible? What makes me think, “You go another mile, damnit,” or, “You wanna smoke WHAT?” It is the wine. It is all the aging wine.
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2009 Château Duhart-Milon
5/4/2024 - ERU wrote: 93 Points
4 hour decant. Had with meats and cheeses. (Meats and cheeses said together always makes me laugh. I don’t know why, but I’ve learned to take my mirth as it comes.)
Great nose of red fruit, leather, and bright cedar-y stuff. It is decidedly medium bodied with a palate of red fruit, some sort of subtle spice, and a leather jacket that’s been kept in a cedar closet. It’s elegant in a way that makes me a believer—maybe sometimes I don’t want Scarface, I want the Age of Innocence.
I enjoyed and appreciated this far more than my previous experience in December 2022. Look at what time can do! Heals a lot wounds, obliterates the testaments of once-great civilizations, bequeaths us jowls, and lets this fascinating juice evolve.
One more bottle I have. Tagging it for 2029.
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