1970 Château Palmer

Community Tasting Notes (254) Avg Score: 92.0 points

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  4/19/2024 - Wine Canuck wrote: 96 Points

  Perfect bottle with a high fill into the neck. This pours medium ruby in the glass with faint bricking. The nose is just soaring with classic Margaux perfume showing violets, plum, barnyard, charcoal, tobacco, and wet soil. The palate is youthful and silky showing loads of plum and violets with silky medium tannin and medium acid. The finish is long and layered replaying the classic violets and plums. All in all this was an incredible and regal showing from the 1970 Palmer. About as I good as I could imagine it showing. Just a hair behind the incredible 1983 and 1989 I've had. What's particularly amazing here is the amount of life this 54 year old wine is showing. Should easily make it another 54 years and beyond.

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  4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  Slightly perhaps its best days, yet, if well stored, this is a beauty. The perfume delivers its smoke, cassis, dried flowers, cedar and earthy notes easily. Medium-bodied, finesse in style, with a black cherry, and spice note in the finish. No decanting needed, just pop and pour. Drink from 2024-2028.

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  2/25/2024 - pavel_p wrote:

  Don’t think I have finished a bottle in worse condition than this 70 Palmer. Cork sunken in and leaking fairly recently into the OWC, hence low shoulder. Managed to remove the cork with the Durand and with the white mold on top of the cork too. Initially moldy notes with plenty of mushroom on nose and attack but not outright oxidized. After a few hours of slow ox, this blew off though and the wine was still holding up, showing dark fruit, integrated tannins and a short finish. Bottles in good condition will show much better for sure

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  2/20/2024 - beatles wrote: 91 Points

  Gatecrashing the competition. This is a very vertical, classic Palmer, dark berries, pronounced tobacco, very dry, dusty, more than decent length. Declining, Drink up.
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  2/9/2024 - ankitmehra Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Four Decades of Left Bank Bordeaux with Friends (New York): Crisis averted as, despite using a Durand, the cork was doing us no favours on this bottle, forcing our hand to strain the wine into a decanter. To our surprise, the wine actually benefited from the decant, opening up to be a gem over the duration we enjoyed it. The nose had a brilliant balance of tertiary components as forest floor and tobacco were counteracted by mint and red cherries. The palate, though, evolved to represent the elegance we so often associate with wine from Margaux. An upfront that lures you in with notes of chocolate, plum and dark cherries shifted into a tertiary mid-palate of cedar wood, earthy funk and licorice before a gamey finish came in that elongated the wine's silkiness. Château Palmer regularly impresses me, and with this being the oldest example I've had to date, it really showed the prowess of the château.

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