Past its prime but not completely out of gas, the wine is medium-bodied and mostly on the secondary side with tobacco leaf, wet forest floor, cigar box, herbs, green leaf and spicy, tart red berries. The finish is soft, peppery, green and bright with a cranberry endnote.
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Smooth plumpish fruit , elegant and almost voluptuous yet controlled. Slightly black graphite and spiced with leather tobacco leaves but quickly resumes it's delicious rounded fruits.just a tad short
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Birthday dinner for Alex, William and Gina 2014 (Cove99, Peck Seah Street, Singapore): The first of William's birth year wines. This was a fully mature Bordeaux at its charming best. The nose showed cedar wood and wet leaves and a little funky sous bois alongside gentle aromas of cassis and plums, with some typically Margaux accents of floral black tea running on behind. Very classic. There was a soft elegance to the palate. The fine tannins still provided a little grip to the fruit, but had otherwise a softened into a soft, silken texture that, wed to nicely fresh acidity, gave a lovely elegance to the wine's rather simple flavours of black cherries and cassis. The finish, with its little bite of cherry peel and hint of mineral, was rather mid-lengthed, somewhat drying out towards the end, but all said, there was still a lot of charm to the wine. A pleasure.
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12/13/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 84 Points
Past its prime but not completely out of gas, the wine is medium-bodied and mostly on the secondary side with tobacco leaf, wet forest floor, cigar box, herbs, green leaf and spicy, tart red berries. The finish is soft, peppery, green and bright with a cranberry endnote.
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6/30/2019 - wprev Likes this wine: 92 Points
excellent aging, after quite 50 years; power, still all kind of tastes
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12/21/2014 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points
Smooth plumpish fruit , elegant and almost voluptuous yet controlled. Slightly black graphite and spiced with leather tobacco leaves but quickly resumes it's delicious rounded fruits.just a tad short
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12/19/2014 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points
Birthday dinner for Alex, William and Gina 2014 (Cove99, Peck Seah Street, Singapore): The first of William's birth year wines. This was a fully mature Bordeaux at its charming best. The nose showed cedar wood and wet leaves and a little funky sous bois alongside gentle aromas of cassis and plums, with some typically Margaux accents of floral black tea running on behind. Very classic. There was a soft elegance to the palate. The fine tannins still provided a little grip to the fruit, but had otherwise a softened into a soft, silken texture that, wed to nicely fresh acidity, gave a lovely elegance to the wine's rather simple flavours of black cherries and cassis. The finish, with its little bite of cherry peel and hint of mineral, was rather mid-lengthed, somewhat drying out towards the end, but all said, there was still a lot of charm to the wine. A pleasure.
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5/15/2004 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 86 Points
Académie des Cinquante Du Tertre / Giscours Tasting (Hostellerie van Gaalen, Heeze, the Netherlands): Magnum. Still relatively lively but does show its age, barley sugar.
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