First bottle of French wine in over a year while living in Napoli. My god. The wine is youthful, and perhaps the only assuagement of guilt for the infanticide is the fact that every smell, taste, moment with this wine was a slice of heaven. Thank you Lalande-Borie. Merci Bordeaux.
Have been enjoying since 2016. My go-to Armagnac, as it is finer than anything commonplace in the states (Delord, Bertruc), and expresses what Armagnac is all about. Laubade base and VS as well as vintage is on par. The nose and palette express balanced wood and fruit, sweetness and salinity. There’s ample orange reduction, châtaigne, walnut, maybe prune, vanilla that ramp up to the attack, which then calmly and slowly melds into caramel, crème brûlé and rounded out umame. This is an excellent Armagnac that, for me, distinguishes itself from the pack. Only rémanence is lacking to place it among top digestif choices.
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2014 Château Lalande-Borie
12/4/2023 - Lucky Luc Likes this wine: 93 Points
First bottle of French wine in over a year while living in Napoli. My god. The wine is youthful, and perhaps the only assuagement of guilt for the infanticide is the fact that every smell, taste, moment with this wine was a slice of heaven. Thank you Lalande-Borie. Merci Bordeaux.
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2001 Dominus Estate
11/14/2020 - Lucky Luc Likes this wine: 92 Points
Next bottle in 2030
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1995 Château de Briat Bas Armagnac
1/8/2020 - Lucky Luc Likes this wine: 96 Points
Have been enjoying since 2016. My go-to Armagnac, as it is finer than anything commonplace in the states (Delord, Bertruc), and expresses what Armagnac is all about. Laubade base and VS as well as vintage is on par. The nose and palette express balanced wood and fruit, sweetness and salinity. There’s ample orange reduction, châtaigne, walnut, maybe prune, vanilla that ramp up to the attack, which then calmly and slowly melds into caramel, crème brûlé and rounded out umame. This is an excellent Armagnac that, for me, distinguishes itself from the pack. Only rémanence is lacking to place it among top digestif choices.
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