*A beautiful silouhette of a wine that I have enjoyed many times that screams Pauillac, Bordeaux, France, and now DRINK ME! Needs about 45 minutes to swell up, but then it deflates within 2 hours. Meanwhile, a beautiful expression of what we love about Bordeaux and old wines, laden in unsmoked tobacco and cellar stench, with a diminished amount of trapped delicate survivor fruit. We are clearly in bottle variation mode now, where there are survivors and thrivers. This one a survivor....Drink!
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Quick decant for sediment, and the wine is a beauty. Very much alive with blackberries, currant, smoke and licorice, yet that mellow tertiary earthiness. In great condition and showed as a beauty.
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Popped and poured, this showed beautiful aromas of smoke, black currant, thyme, camphor, and blackberry. Medium acidity, tannins fully resolved, a very elegant and refined bottle today that paired fantastically with NY Strip. Finished after about 2 hours open and still firing on all cylinders at that point.
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2/10/2024 - Purple Tooth wrote: 91 Points
*A beautiful silouhette of a wine that I have enjoyed many times that screams Pauillac, Bordeaux, France, and now DRINK ME! Needs about 45 minutes to swell up, but then it deflates within 2 hours. Meanwhile, a beautiful expression of what we love about Bordeaux and old wines, laden in unsmoked tobacco and cellar stench, with a diminished amount of trapped delicate survivor fruit. We are clearly in bottle variation mode now, where there are survivors and thrivers. This one a survivor....Drink!
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8/28/2022 - thepeng1 wrote: 100 Points
Second bottle, 16 years later. Can this be the same wine? A wonderful goodby toast to the memory of Pauline, my wife of 45 years.
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4/23/2022 - fc1910 wrote: flawed
1982 (A vintage dream); 4/21/2022-4/23/2022 (Hotel Jean Jacques Rousseau, La Neuveville, lake Biel, Restaurant des Bains, Avenches, Switzerland): A Mouton Baron Philippe from Jereboam, planned as the table wine on the second evening,
really flawed,
wet dog fur, eyeyey......, what a pity
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6/8/2021 - mye wrote:
Quick decant for sediment, and the wine is a beauty. Very much alive with blackberries, currant, smoke and licorice, yet that mellow tertiary earthiness. In great condition and showed as a beauty.
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5/4/2021 - SoundinBetween wrote:
Popped and poured, this showed beautiful aromas of smoke, black currant, thyme, camphor, and blackberry. Medium acidity, tannins fully resolved, a very elegant and refined bottle today that paired fantastically with NY Strip. Finished after about 2 hours open and still firing on all cylinders at that point.
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