So much fruit and acid and would not have guessed 1990. Definitely has a long life ahead of it. I was almost anguished tasting so much primary fruit but as it opened up I got a nice lick of graphite, some sous bois, and a fistful of cassis berries. Now I know why Bordeaux lovers geek out about this Chateau.
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Full garnet. Heavy cedar on the nose. Similar on the attack, mid red fruit with a good thwack of cedar. Too much cedar in fact, I think this is slightly corked. Previous note 15 years ago mentioned a drying finish, but this is a step beyond that. No.
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Brief taste. This was quite dark and coiled. Rich without being roasted but flavors were a bit muddled. I’ll look forward to more time with the next bottle.
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Maybe not the best bottle. Seemed like it might have seen some heat at the fruit was a little muddled and advanced. But the finish showed a terrific vibrancy and eucalyptus note.
Really turned around on night 2. So maybe I held this back by not decanting. It was overlooked due to overwhelming number of better offerings on night 1. More delineation oon night 2. Sharply focied fluit and palate. Nose was wlwgant ans juacned with tobacco and tea notes and lovely eucalyptus note.
Lesson learned. Score is from night 2
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Right bank Bordeaux: My third and last bottle of this that showed the best. Brought this for a friend, correctly identified in blind. Had a poise and serenity that previous bottles lacked, didn’t have the unpleasant plummy note as well. Probably on its plateau now. Think this was almost unanimously in everyone’s top 3, second on the night for me.
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2/14/2024 - rawdealbuffy Likes this wine:
So much fruit and acid and would not have guessed 1990. Definitely has a long life ahead of it. I was almost anguished tasting so much primary fruit but as it opened up I got a nice lick of graphite, some sous bois, and a fistful of cassis berries. Now I know why Bordeaux lovers geek out about this Chateau.
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12/23/2023 - SimonG wrote: flawed
Full garnet. Heavy cedar on the nose. Similar on the attack, mid red fruit with a good thwack of cedar. Too much cedar in fact, I think this is slightly corked. Previous note 15 years ago mentioned a drying finish, but this is a step beyond that. No.
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11/7/2023 - jviz wrote:
Brief taste. This was quite dark and coiled. Rich without being roasted but flavors were a bit muddled. I’ll look forward to more time with the next bottle.
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11/4/2023 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Maybe not the best bottle. Seemed like it might have seen some heat at the fruit was a little muddled and advanced. But the finish showed a terrific vibrancy and eucalyptus note.
Really turned around on night 2. So maybe I held this back by not decanting. It was overlooked due to overwhelming number of better offerings on night 1. More delineation oon night 2. Sharply focied fluit and palate. Nose was wlwgant ans juacned with tobacco and tea notes and lovely eucalyptus note.
Lesson learned. Score is from night 2
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3/17/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 92 Points
Right bank Bordeaux: My third and last bottle of this that showed the best. Brought this for a friend, correctly identified in blind. Had a poise and serenity that previous bottles lacked, didn’t have the unpleasant plummy note as well. Probably on its plateau now. Think this was almost unanimously in everyone’s top 3, second on the night for me.
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