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• 1996 Château Cos d'Estournel

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  3/14/2024 - djdaqm Likes this wine: 97 Points

  About twenty years ago, when I was newly getting into wine, I went to a Christie's pre-auction tasting at the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles. There I was introduced and fell in love with my first tastes of old first growth Bordeaux, like Lafitte and Haut Brion. This Cos took me right back there from the second I smelled it--scents of autumn leaves, tobacco, pencil shavings, and cedar. I really enjoyed this and it reminded me why and what good aged Bordeaux can be. It gradually changed but didn't diminish over the evening, with its long after taste, earthy secondary flavors, complexity, nicely integrated tannins with plenty more life left for further aging, and beautiful balance.

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• 2006 Château Hosanna

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  12/24/2022 - djdaqm wrote: 94 Points

  Plenty of life left. Spices and warm. Good concentration. Very good nose. Starting to get the tertiary flavors, but not quite there yet. A pleasure to drink.

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• 2000 Château Léoville Poyferré

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  3/15/2022 - djdaqm wrote: 96 Points

  Cedar notes on the nose. Earthy. Low alcohol, great balance. Fruit subsiding, but there is plenty of stuff to show. A bit of tannin but not too much. Long finish. Complex. Delicious to drink. Classical old school French Bordeaux. Wines like this is why I collect and age wine

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