(Restaurant in Bordeaux) I've experienced a lot of bottle variation with the Clos de la Coulee de Serrant, but this was a very good bottle. Very complex aromatically, fresh with bright acidity, less oxidative in character than many other vintages and bottles. Long, complex, rich while being light, saline. A beautiful wine.
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We decanted the wine about 2 hours before dinner. The wine needed considerable air before it blossomed. Honeysuckle, mountain meadow flowers, hay and hints of flint and stone. it was very crisp and balanced. Very long on the palate. Just an excellent wine but it does require time in a decanter
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Telling tales of oxidation were sherry like aroma traces on the nose and finish. For the rest it still seemed sharply focussed and mineral with fine acidity and backbone. After extracting one glass, I recorked the bottle and placed it back in the fridge to see if a miracle happens after a day's exposure to air. In spite of having once been advised to decant Coulée de S 24 hours in advance, I'm not optimistic.
PS on 3/26/16 - No miracle but a very slight diminution of the sherry odour. Without that it could have been very like what Brad described. A big shame but at 31 years hardly a one-off flawed bottle, so rated.
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12/9/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Waxy and round.
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8/16/2019 - ccn Likes this wine: 93 Points
(Restaurant in Bordeaux) I've experienced a lot of bottle variation with the Clos de la Coulee de Serrant, but this was a very good bottle. Very complex aromatically, fresh with bright acidity, less oxidative in character than many other vintages and bottles. Long, complex, rich while being light, saline. A beautiful wine.
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8/11/2019 - Boone's Farm Likes this wine: 93 Points
We decanted the wine about 2 hours before dinner. The wine needed considerable air before it blossomed. Honeysuckle, mountain meadow flowers, hay and hints of flint and stone. it was very crisp and balanced. Very long on the palate. Just an excellent wine but it does require time in a decanter
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4/21/2017 - LWI wrote: 89 Points
Camphor, honey, exotic spices at first; concentrated, high extract, decent length
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3/25/2016 - eboracum wrote: 80 Points
Telling tales of oxidation were sherry like aroma traces on the nose and finish. For the rest it still seemed sharply focussed and mineral with fine acidity and backbone. After extracting one glass, I recorked the bottle and placed it back in the fridge to see if a miracle happens after a day's exposure to air. In spite of having once been advised to decant Coulée de S 24 hours in advance, I'm not optimistic.
PS on 3/26/16 - No miracle but a very slight diminution of the sherry odour. Without that it could have been very like what Brad described. A big shame but at 31 years hardly a one-off flawed bottle, so rated.
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