2003 Château Rauzan-Ségla

Community Tasting Notes (123) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  8/5/2023 - bacchus of knockholt Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Not decanted but a little muddy poured from the bottle with a ruby core and little bricking. Rotting leaf and blackcurrant plus some floral notes too. The palate is generous and ripe with plenty of black fruit, soft, beautiful balance and a savoury, tapenade finish. So much to enjoy.

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  5/7/2023 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  Bordeaux 2003 – 20 Years On – 33 Reds: All wines tasted blind, not decanted (some wines would have needed it). Observations: 1) 2003 is not a good vintage. The wines don’t have the depth and elegance of good years. But I was positively surprised, that while it’s clearly a hot year, there are less overripe, over-extracted and prematurely dying wines than in 09/10. Still, there is no comparison to how Chateauxs handle hot years today. 2) Compared to five other vintage retrospectives, the 2003 came in last place (lower average score than 2011), with just Chateau Margaux reaching a group score above 95pts. 3) Margaux wines showed best, with the typical immediate charm, while St. Estephe and Pauillac have potential but will need more time (and/or would have needed more air). 4) Right bank wines did not show as good with some alcohol showing and a few wines being on a downhill path. I would not chase 2003 right banks.
  
  TN: Beautiful dark fruit and blue fruit nose, complex with toasty notes, herbs, minerality, cedar. Superb nose, precise, intriguing. On the palate the same layerdness with fine dark, dark red and blue fruit, fresh fruit, not too ripe, lots of cedar and some crushed rocks as well as some toasty or nutty notes. Very fine tannins, round and well-integrated acidity, superb balance and an almost airy texture without being thin. With time, however, it gets a bit thinner, loosing a bit of its appeal. But strong showing and one of the winners of the tasting.
  
  Decanting: No extensive decanting needed.
  
  Group average: 92.3 pts
  Group rank: Shared 8th out of 29 reds

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  4/25/2023 - chatters wrote:

  En Primeur campaign for the 2022 vintage Day Four (Bordeaux): From Magnum. Meaty, savoury, forest floor, earth, slight leathery, sweet spice, black hued fruits. Medium plus intensity acidity, quite hard and bitter, tannins are drying. Nose better than the palate. Hmm

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  3/20/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 91 Points

  Grand Bordeaux 2003 horizontal tasting (Fribourg): Bordeaux 2003 vintage horizontal hosted by a private collector and moderated by Jean-Marc Quarin. Main observations: 1/ Average quality is acceptable, but weighted down by various low-lights, esp. on the right bank. 2/ In general a tannic vintage, lacking balance. 3/ Top 3 wines were Lafite, Mouton and Margaux (all 95). See the tasting story for a complete overview and additional vintage comments.
  
  Tasting note:
  Ripe cherry fruit, extracted and concentrated but with decent definition. Earthy and smoky notes as well as a bit of leather. High-octane palate with lacking mid-palate presence. Not a great vintage for Rauzan Ségla.

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  2/7/2023 - Purple Tooth wrote: 93 Points

  Really in a perfect spot. Earth, graphite, tight and youthful. Really delicious with a nice dry and long pull. Rauzan segla is a sleeper of a Bordeaux , but this baby is freshly woken. Still, this has lots of legs left. Drink or Hold

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