I was probably unlucky, but despite this being kept in perfect conditions since release, it wasn't very good. The fruit is rather tart and fading, lacking any freshness. It is a shame, because the mouthfeel is very suave and silky, but when the fruit has started down the hill, the cookie has crumbled.
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What a pleasant time to drink this wine. It's right in the sweet spot of evolution for me. On the nose, it's mostly tertiary with dead leaves and fresh blackcurrant leaves but as it gets some air the blackcurrant fruit is also coming out. On the palate this is still very lively with plenty of fruit, nice acidity and fine tanins that still grip. Not huge, but rather medium bodied and calling for food. Lovely time with this bottle.
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4/13/2024 - Whidah Likes this wine: 95 Points
Last bottle. Moving house so a departure celebration with family. Drank after 2 bottles of 2015. It soon disappeared.
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9/3/2023 - Badfish Likes this wine:
Drinking beautifully like a Bordeaux of this standing should at twenty years of age. Complex, balanced, slightly lean, just as you would expect.
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7/15/2023 - becassine wrote: 93 Points
Fantastic wine
Drink up it’s great whine now
23 years old
Do not wait
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4/10/2023 - Julian Marshall wrote: 82 Points
I was probably unlucky, but despite this being kept in perfect conditions since release, it wasn't very good. The fruit is rather tart and fading, lacking any freshness. It is a shame, because the mouthfeel is very suave and silky, but when the fruit has started down the hill, the cookie has crumbled.
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3/21/2023 - philmtl Likes this wine:
What a pleasant time to drink this wine. It's right in the sweet spot of evolution for me. On the nose, it's mostly tertiary with dead leaves and fresh blackcurrant leaves but as it gets some air the blackcurrant fruit is also coming out. On the palate this is still very lively with plenty of fruit, nice acidity and fine tanins that still grip. Not huge, but rather medium bodied and calling for food. Lovely time with this bottle.
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