1990 Château Cantemerle

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  3/23/2024 - manemis Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A bit thin initially but opened up nicely after 2 hours decant. Brownish brick along the rim but still deep red core colour. Leather. Well balanced. Medium length. Not too complex or concentrated but enjoyable to drink. Drink up.

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  2/24/2024 - James Kim Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Stood up for 25m4h then decanted off sediment, which wasn't huge. Initially some funk which blew off. Took about 1.5h for that wine to come together. Now 3.5h after decant. Nice aromas of cassis and currants mixes with leather, cedar, old book mustiness(a good thing!), bark and a hint of dark caramel. Palate w tart currants, cassis, leather, cedar and bark. Elegant, light-med body with excellent acids and faint tannins. Lacks some concentration and depth and not that complex for me. Plenty of fruit but it is starting to dry out and become more tart. Still delicious thought. All in all, a fully mature and very nice wine which is probably on the other side of its peak and on a gentle downslope. Frankly, the wine more than met my expectations.

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  11/25/2023 - geoffreychambertin Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This was firing on all cylinders tonight and is everything I want in older Bordeaux.

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  7/26/2023 - SussexSB Likes this wine: 91 Points

  She lives on! Very mellow and no birds. Not complicated, PnP. but all there. Gently thinning, but structure and finish still there. Nose peng. Wanted an aged claret to go with some roast leg saged pork. Perfect.

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  10/8/2022 - empire80 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Wow, 7 years from my previous bottle, and this doesn't seem to have declined at all! Yes it is very tertiary and definitely for drinking now, but it's a beautifully complete mature claret, everything in place and just a warm mellow feeling as the finish gently fades.

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