2010 Château Prieuré-Lichine

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 90.9 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View AlphaMikeFoxtrot's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/20/2024 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot wrote: 87 Points

  Dark chocolate, tobacco, over ripe dark plums, over ripe blackcurrants, ripe black cherries, black licorice and a hint of green bell pepper on the nose. Smells like what I expect for 14 year old Bordeaux, though surprising it smells THIS old given that it's a 2010. Medium + intensity of aromas. On the palate, the oak makes its presence felt. Flavors of cedar wood, smoke, baking spices and anise dominate the over ripe dark fruits. Definitely more secondary than I like my left bank Bordeaux, though with a nice medium + intensity of flavors.
  
  Full bodied with medium acid and medium + tannin. Developing. Will age well for 3-5 more years at least. Maybe 10. To my palate, I'll probably enjoy it more then.
  
  Anyway, this is very much "international style" Bordeaux. It tastes like it could be from Argentina, or Sonoma or...anywhere. It's a style I don't always mind; but for the price of $93 here in California, I'm a little disappointed. And it's not like classified growths really *mean* that much anymore; but I was surprised that a wine so obviously in this style found its way onto a fourth growth (albiet one I am a lot less familiar with).

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (2)

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View AllRed's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/17/2023 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points

  Friday Group Brown Bag Tasting (Eagle Brook CC): Double blind. Deep garnet color. As my nose reaches the glass I am immediately smitten by the black currant, tobacco and graphite aromas I find. Full-bodied and fine-grained, slightly sweet tannins and flavors of red plum, currant and graphite. As it opens in the glass there's a hint of molasses as well. I was thinking mid-2000s Pauillac.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Psdycp's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/7/2023 - Psdycp wrote: 91 Points

  Good density of tobacco, ripe blackberries, toasted clove and graphite on the nose. Good balance. Palate is a touch woody with firm and ripe tannins. Almost full-bodied. The huge structure is still hiding many finer aromatic elements for now. Finish is long and deep. Need a few more years for the wine to open and tannins to soften.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View chatters's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/24/2023 - chatters wrote:

  En Primeur campaign for the 2022 vintage Day Three (Bordeaux): Dark hued fruits, plum, liquorice, a little forward, a little over-extracted blackcurrant, leathery notes. Medium plus intensity acidity, grape and wood tannins are drying, black hued fruits, sweet spice with some slightly gamey, meaty notes and a little leather on the palate as well. This is quite forward for a 2010 (for me anyway). Hmm

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (5)

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View chatters's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/23/2022 - chatters wrote:

  United Cellars Bordeaux dinner (The Gidley, King Street, Sydney): Biscuit, plums, blackcurrant, herbaceous notes, slightly meaty underpin, smells quite dense, a little leather farmyard and autumn leaves. Juicy acid, savoury, tight tannins, dark hued fruits resolve to blackcurrant and plum, non-intrusive alcohol warmth, long, balanced, pleasing.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

View all 46 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.