Level 3cm below the cork. Similar style to the Clos d'Isoré 1989 tasted yesterday, but not as powerful, masculine and structured. The nose is vinous and ripe, with a glowing warmth of roasted chestnuts and only a hint of minerals and older wood; the palate displays attractive and juicy cherry fruit, medium weight, and is upheld by lively acidity and ripe tannins, with a quite dominant dusty, chalky note; light and mature finish, dried cherries, cream, hint of cold tea. Holding up well, with more charm and fruit than the bottle tasted in August 2014.
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Single bottle, level 3cm below the cork; argilo-calcaire soils, 12 months on oak. Stony and and structured but, remarkably, not as austere or tannic as the double-magnum tasted in 2012. A sound and solid wine, holding up very well, but also dusty and old-fashioned, vinous but not very expressive or precise. Needs food, bavette steak comes to mind.
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1/11/2016 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 Points
Level 3cm below the cork. Similar style to the Clos d'Isoré 1989 tasted yesterday, but not as powerful, masculine and structured. The nose is vinous and ripe, with a glowing warmth of roasted chestnuts and only a hint of minerals and older wood; the palate displays attractive and juicy cherry fruit, medium weight, and is upheld by lively acidity and ripe tannins, with a quite dominant dusty, chalky note; light and mature finish, dried cherries, cream, hint of cold tea. Holding up well, with more charm and fruit than the bottle tasted in August 2014.
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8/6/2014 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 89 Points
Single bottle, level 3cm below the cork; argilo-calcaire soils, 12 months on oak. Stony and and structured but, remarkably, not as austere or tannic as the double-magnum tasted in 2012. A sound and solid wine, holding up very well, but also dusty and old-fashioned, vinous but not very expressive or precise. Needs food, bavette steak comes to mind.
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11/24/2012 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 88 Points
Académie des Cinquante Claret / Piedmont Tasting (Restaurant De Hoefslag *, Bosch en Duin, Netherlands): Double-Magnum. Tight and minerally, energetic, quite tannic, not very peppery or expressive, dusty tannins, difficult, firm but lacks charm, good length.
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