1995 Château Gruaud Larose

Community Tasting Notes (216) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  4/10/2024 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

  Amazingly considering this is nearly 30 years old there's no bricking at all.
  What a nose - stewed fruit, earthy, pencil shaving, tobacco - classic old claret.
  Still some big tannins here, grippy but ripe, plenty of dark fruit. Long. This is still young. Not going anywhere. and only 12.5%, love an old Bordeaux.

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  2/18/2024 - Scapolite Likes this wine: 93 Points

  **PnP with no decanting; consumed over 3-4 hours in the glass**
  
  Deep ruby, purple colour, opaque. Reddish rimming with slight bricking, definitely showing some age.
  
  On the nose, at first it was a bit muted with mostly tobacco, cigar box, cedar, and wet earth showing. However, as time passed on, the black fruit came out more and more with blackberries, black currants, plums, and meat. The earthy notes, black fruits, and the slight oak are very well integrated. This is such an elegant, complex aroma.
  
  On the palate, medium plus acidity with fine tannins and layered with ripe black fruits, similar to the nose. Notes of blackberries, black currents, and cassis are well integrated with the slight oak, and finishes with a leathery, smoky, a bit of spicy note. As time went on in the glass, the ripe black fruits became more and more prominent.
  
  This is very elegant and complex. The fruit is well intact despite the age, wonderful.

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  2/11/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:

  Super Bowl LVIII 2024 (Alpharetta, GA): Cellar Diving Wines: This was showing much better than my last tasting of this wine. Paired really well with Beef Bourguignon.

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  12/21/2023 - ankitmehra Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A vintage I’ve come to really enjoy, this Château Gruaud Larose was yet another example of how well the wines from 1995 have turned the corner. Boasting a nose I’ve come to love of the château in the numerous bottles I’ve tried, there’s a subtle elegance to the medley of tobacco, jam, meat and blackcurrant scents that work together in unison. The palate is refined, taking about an hour to truly come to life as the upfront is dominated by smoke and blackcurrant before shifting into an exuberant mid-palate that is extremely well balanced, boasting notes of black cherries, anise, menthol and iron. The finish is mouth coating with the tannins still softening as a sense of gaminess is in play with herbs. This wine has so much fruit intact and is structurally so well balanced, showing off a sense of masculinity with lots of power and actually going against the grain of many of the softer wines I’ve found myself having from this vintage (in a good way!).

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  12/10/2023 - AhSoNice1990 wrote: 85 Points

  Had the 1999 a while back and it was beginning to show decline. This one is very much reaching the end. Very little in the way of tannins left. Sous-bois and barnyard on the nose, then opening up to show hints of black fruit - finish was short. I was expecting more

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