1949 Château Gruaud Larose

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  5/8/2023 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points

  Originating from a beautiful blue-green bottle with a very high shoulder fill, this example of the 1949 Larose is in in great shape. The nose offers a ripe, muscular, red cherry and redcurrant character with an interesting meaty, bloody character - like a good duck breast - with damp earth and chestnut alongside. There’s still plenty of crushed velvet tannin that coats the mouth and its weight is lovely. It takes about half an hour for the complexity and weight to really unfold and for an initial woody character to dissipate before maintaining on its plateau for an hour before the details start to blur slightly. This bottle never left France.

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  1/13/2023 - Moonie Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Brought by a friend to a luncheon celebrating his 85th birthday. He bought the wine probably 40-50 years ago and it has been in his cellar since. Superlative is all that can be said. Fresh, good fruit, no noticeable tannins and all the tertiary notes you can expect in a fine, really old Bordeaux. He as the one who introduced me to G-L 25 years ago, saying the older ones really sing if you give them enough time. He was sure right regarding this one and a 1966 I had some years ago that was perfectly stored.

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  10/29/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: flawed

  leaked in transit, oxidized.

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  9/7/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Acker Pre-Auction September 2022 (Redbury Lounge): Definitely need to like older style of wine but I really do and so it’s just so fun to go this far back. More dried leather and musty library and all of that. But nice.

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  4/5/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Probably probably this wine is past peak and is heading downhill but if you are someone who likes a tertiary Bordeaux (I am) then it's still quite fun to get to try. Older than my parents. Drinking pretty well in that structure.

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