1999 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Turque

Community Tasting Notes (68) Avg Score: 96.9 points

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  4/29/2024 - sh6k wrote:

  Not rating because my bottle was clearly not up to snuff. The cork was in perfect condition and no TCA smell, and the color was dark purple with no fading, but there was an old wine horsey / barnyard smell that only got stronger with decanting (drank over 90 minutes) and aerating. There were interesting leather and dark fruit notes but again they got progressively drowned out by the stampede of horse.
  
  From others' reviews I'm gathering this was an anomaly, but also may indicate the wine is reaching the end of its life.
  
  So disappointed because it was my first Guigal.
  
  Update after a night in the wine squirrel: the horsey note is mostly gone, but the wine is thin, like it was corked (again: didn't smell TCA but I'm not very sensitive to it). Hints of violet, but otherwise not much going on. Poured it down the drain :(

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  12/1/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The most closed of the ‘99 LaLaLas but also the most powerful almost monolithic. Check back in a decade. 93-94

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  7/8/2023 - dbkitc wrote: 99 Points

  This is absolutely amazing. Garnet with a blood red rim. At stunning nose of blackberry fruit, spice and red meat. A touch of herbs. This is masculine and complex (is that possible😀?). Lush yet mineral with verve. Expansive, broad with 20 more years of evolution. Great. (99)

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  9/24/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points

  Still youthful, the wine explodes with its nose of cherries black raspberries, smoke, flowers, spearmint, and thyme. Powerful, balanced, harmonious, and with a seamless finish that does not want to quit, this is off the hook! Decanted for about 60 minutes, drink from 2022-2040.

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  4/7/2022 - BradE wrote:

  The 99 La Turque is freakish, as it's a 100 point wine that's still a baby at age 23. It's in the front end of a very long drinking window.

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