Feel a little like Robin Hood or better, The A Team, righting some wrongs, needing to respond when a potential injustice occurs.
En magnum, but this is tip top. Easy 91. Little bit further to go, and with additional resolved tannins (yes, more settling to come), this might score a little higher. Smoky box wood. Not utter refinement but sometimes good to have a bit of rough in the mix. Proper quaffage. Stay large format. Dark fruit and walnut shells. Bravo.
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Filling-level into the neck. The cork was soaked, but intact. Good, medium to dark garnet colour. Classic profile of dark fruit (black currant, cherry, blackberry and plum), mushroom, vegetal notes, cedar, leather, graphite, smoke, spices and cinnamon, all carried by harmonious acidity, with fine, mostly resolved tannin and very good length of the mildly balsamic finish. Not the most concentrated, but a smoothly textured, balanced and very harmonious expression of aged St. Julien. In a good place! Drink now.
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Lovely, mature, mellow, elegant, pretty claret. Pure, plush raspberry fruit, pencil, cedar, mineral unfolding with air. A smokier profile two hours in. Considering that Suntory's first vintage here was 1983, this is a pretty rapid about-face for quality at Lagrange. 92-93
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1/26/2022 - SussexSB Likes this wine: 91 Points
Feel a little like Robin Hood or better, The A Team, righting some wrongs, needing to respond when a potential injustice occurs.
En magnum, but this is tip top. Easy 91. Little bit further to go, and with additional resolved tannins (yes, more settling to come), this might score a little higher. Smoky box wood. Not utter refinement but sometimes good to have a bit of rough in the mix. Proper quaffage. Stay large format. Dark fruit and walnut shells. Bravo.
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10/15/2021 - RayOB wrote: 91 Points
Drank at 67 (M)
Still very drinkable and young
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10/31/2020 - PSPatrick wrote: 92 Points
Filling-level into the neck. The cork was soaked, but intact. Good, medium to dark garnet colour. Classic profile of dark fruit (black currant, cherry, blackberry and plum), mushroom, vegetal notes, cedar, leather, graphite, smoke, spices and cinnamon, all carried by harmonious acidity, with fine, mostly resolved tannin and very good length of the mildly balsamic finish. Not the most concentrated, but a smoothly textured, balanced and very harmonious expression of aged St. Julien. In a good place! Drink now.
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11/30/2019 - jkoenen wrote: 88 Points
Fading. Drink up.
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12/15/2018 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points
Lovely, mature, mellow, elegant, pretty claret. Pure, plush raspberry fruit, pencil, cedar, mineral unfolding with air. A smokier profile two hours in. Considering that Suntory's first vintage here was 1983, this is a pretty rapid about-face for quality at Lagrange. 92-93
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