Nose: Very floral, old cedar, old weathered barn. Palate: Blackberry liqueur, kirsch, thick black cherry; fine grained tannins that still manage to be silky. Wonderfully balances its forward youthfulness with just enough aged complexity. So good!
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Just way too young right now. Delicious fruit and structure but will surely improve with age. Opened bottle for 6 hrs then decanted for 90 minutes. Better on day two. Will try again in three years.
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Château Palmer vertical (Herbert Smith Freehills, London): 52 M, 41 CS, 7 PV. Similar showing to a bottle tried in summer 2022: this is a massive, impressive, serious wine, yet already most enjoyable. Nose initially very leafy and cigar-influenced, then the greener notes were joined by waves of floral and deep, layered red fruit notes. So dark and concentrated, some graphite. Everything in place for this to become quite wondrous around ten years from now.
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This was served blind to me. It is surprisingly, still a little lactic, showed some new oak just like a Vega sicilia would. it was served just after a 2010 Lopez that Heredia Gran Reserva, and, to be honest, there were some similitude. And international wine, delicious, top-tier, all of that, but not distinctive of Bordeaux, in the way that I would hope. so while it was familiar, and I liked it, other vintages such as 2014 are more likely to give the classical pleasure and distinctiveness that we are seeking.
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1/26/2024 - stamperb Likes this wine: 97 Points
Nose: Very floral, old cedar, old weathered barn. Palate: Blackberry liqueur, kirsch, thick black cherry; fine grained tannins that still manage to be silky. Wonderfully balances its forward youthfulness with just enough aged complexity. So good!
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1/8/2024 - MariusA Likes this wine: 95 Points
Just way too young right now. Delicious fruit and structure but will surely improve with age. Opened bottle for 6 hrs then decanted for 90 minutes. Better on day two.
Will try again in three years.
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11/3/2023 - dcwino wrote: 93 Points
Grand Jury du Vin - Republic of Georgia; 11/1/2023-11/9/2023 (Republic of Georgia then stopover in Paris and Dijon): Wine 32 – Perfectly ripe black fruit, blackberry, black cherry, light caramel. Sexy and delicious.
Afterthought – I thought I had 'missed' the mark on this wine.
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10/19/2023 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 Points
Château Palmer vertical (Herbert Smith Freehills, London): 52 M, 41 CS, 7 PV. Similar showing to a bottle tried in summer 2022: this is a massive, impressive, serious wine, yet already most enjoyable. Nose initially very leafy and cigar-influenced, then the greener notes were joined by waves of floral and deep, layered red fruit notes. So dark and concentrated, some graphite. Everything in place for this to become quite wondrous around ten years from now.
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4/28/2023 - jviz wrote: 94 Points
This was served blind to me. It is surprisingly, still a little lactic, showed some new oak just like a Vega sicilia would. it was served just after a 2010 Lopez that Heredia Gran Reserva, and, to be honest, there were some similitude. And international wine, delicious, top-tier, all of that, but not distinctive of Bordeaux, in the way that I would hope. so while it was familiar, and I liked it, other vintages such as 2014 are more likely to give the classical pleasure and distinctiveness that we are seeking.
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