1982 Chateau Musar

Community Tasting Notes (31) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  9/30/2023 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 93 Points

  Medium garnet copper. bottom shoulder fill (my lowest full bottle of the trio). @Indie w/ Laurtal. Birthday.
  
  Decanted last minute. Figgy date skins. Tamari blackberry compote. Pretty aromatic. Singing. It was a lovely conversation partner over the evening. All the familiar musar elements (oxidation, perfumed VA, brett, tamari blackberry). It came alive fairly quickly.

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  2/4/2023 - aagrawal wrote: 91 Points

  Dinner with Rajiv and Roger (Millbrae): Medium ruby, significant bricking consistent with its age; nose is aromatic, tertiary soy and balsamic, superb complexity, a bit of forest floor; palate is medium bodied, stellar fresh acidity, medium alcohol, flavors persistent through the midpalate; finish is medium length. Really nice, perfectly aged. 91

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  2/4/2023 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 91 Points

  MNB Friends (and kiddos!) (Ashish's): Of the three London bottles, this is the one with the middle ullage - upper shoulder. Opened in the morning. Cork has some damp residue on the top. Cork soaked completely through.
  Out of the bottle: slightly singed blackberry - and a hint of perfumed tamari-cassis. It smells similar to how the 72 smelled - evoking a sense of noble reduction, almost.
  
  Decision: don’t decant. Leave this upright at room temp.
  
  At dinner, after the 98 musar: a little savory and soft vegetal tomato notes. Soft and melted generic old wine tamari flavor. This feels pretty reticent. Maybe faded. Not sure. It’s not awake yet but the cassis core is starting to come out.
  
  Medium structure on the palate - so integrated. Soft light tannins. Medium acid, alcohol, body. Totally melted tannins.
  
  It’s pretty advanced and it’s harder for me to pick out the musar character (vs good-old-wine character) compared with the 98.

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  1/29/2023 - millej Likes this wine:

  I've read that this vintage can be very variable and sometimes reductive.
  
  Well I certainly lucked out then and this is a thrillingly beautiful mature Musar.
  
  Soft and lovely nose, redolent of summer breezes. one of those noses where you keep going back, sighing in happiness, relaxing and smiling. Cinnamon and cherry liqueur on the palate. A touch of animale on both.
  
  Opened for our 29th Blind Zoom tasting

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  1/26/2023 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Double blind from a small capped bottle. Mature a bit brown, sun baked, hints of VA at the end of the nose. Some VA Sun baked. Not much fruit. Bright. High acid nutty marzipan VA. finish is sweet and nutty and a bit sharp. Should have gotten this from the VA.
  
  Day 4: fading. Still pretty. A bit volatile , marzipan. Sweet strawberry compote. Nutty. The palate is potent and nutty and sweet. Also VA. Marzipan. Finish is volatile but pretty with marzipan and strawberry and nice perfume. Nose - 4.5/6, Palate - 5-5.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1-1.5/2 = 15.5-16.5/20.

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