2010 Château Clinet

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  4/30/2024 - Voltman62 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Last of 3 bottles, disappointed I don't have more, great balance of fruit & tannins

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  2/3/2024 - plho wrote:

  Need to decant for 3h to express

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  12/19/2023 - popopdrops Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dekantert. En smule rå dag 1. Vidundelig og alt på plass dag 3. Herlig pomerol.

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  10/7/2023 - chandlerc@gmail.com Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Nose is reluctant to emerge, subtle and understated. Once you find it, smells like medieval Christmas -- dried fruits stewed in brandy and spice, a theme that continues. Solid acid on the palate, with chalk, limestone, and then powdery cedar and wood. The tannins are *really* grippy still, and with another decade might get into chewy. Some of the blackberry bush's twigs and stems, not so much leaves or fruit. Finish is remarkable, and lingers far past what I expected. As the finish lingers, it starts to hint at creamy vanilla. *Really* needs more time. In another decade, this will be a different wine, hopefully silken and chewy. It's good, *really* good, but not yet what it could be. Wait, and revisit.
  
  Tasted with some food, the fruit emerges much more, still tight black-fruit flavors. Doesn't change the character but lets you get much more of the fruit out. Chalky notes overtake the limestone. Better with food this young, but still deserves to be tasted in 10+ years when the real show starts.
  
  After 4+ hours in a ship's decanter, even this young it starts to open more. The acidity and tannic rigidness integrate better, and wood with a bit of mint takes a much more prominent role in the palate. Generally, I feel like this wine would be better with bottle age taking the edge off and leaving the subtlety and beauty available from the 1-2 hour point. But absent that, letting it breath for 4 hours will let the excellence emerge here.

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  9/20/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points

  Opulent, lush, and loaded with layers of perfectly ripe, black and red plums, chocolate, cherries, flowers, truffle, licorice, smoke, and a background note of mint. The wine is concentrated, long, deep, and fresh, with silky tannins and a finish that doesn't want to quit. Drink from 2023-2045.

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