2010 Les Asteries

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  10/29/2022 - skifree wrote: 91 Points

  Very ripe blueberries and menthol on the nose, still feels a bit closed, lots of minerality in the mouth that overpowers the fruit, noticed some herbal notes on the finish day 1 but tannins and cedar overpowered those notes on day 2. Hides the alcohol really well.

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  5/2/2019 - wineguy1968 wrote:

  Has all the bones but a bit shut down right now. Good structure, some violets, menthol, blueberry, medium plus alcohol, decent finish but fruit seems muted even with a 1 hr decant.

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  10/11/2015 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 89 Points

  This has been decanting for four hours. Aromas are pretty yummy, but this does come across as a bit purple. Tons of blueberries, black cherry and graphite. This smells quite decadent, almost like a blueberry reduction desert. Initially I was getting quite a bit of alcohol on the nose too, but that seemed to dissipate as I got drunk. Palate is medium full bodied and intense, all tannins and acid. The finish is similar, all fine tannins and acid totally coating the finish. Totally gritty and tannic that completely covers the palate, with notes of cassis and alcohol lingering. This is crazy big and tannic. Surprisingly I do think this will age alright despite its massive size. I could see this becoming a 93 point wine in ~15 years... or that alcohol and extraction could get away from it. For a 15% wine, the alcohol is amazingly not all that distracting. However, today this wine isn't very enjoyable to drink. I do think this gets better from here... I do think the fruit density will mellow out a bit, which will be good for the wine. Hope the alcohol doesn't get away from it... 89+

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  5/29/2015 - John McCabe wrote: 93 Points

  Parker's review is quite accurate though I'm not sure how he thought the drinking window would start at 2013; this is quite jammy and unformed right now (despite three hours of decanting), though the potential is clear. I'd leave this for another five years at least. Glad I have a case left. Could almost be confused with something from Napa. It's approachable in some ways but it has a dark, tannic backbone which suggests a longer wait is needed.

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  10/28/2014 - forceberry wrote: 87 Points

  A cult microcuvée of Château Teyssier / Jonathan Maltus made from fruit sourced from a 1,2 ha plot composed of Merlot (83%) and Cabernet Franc (17%). Ridiculously high 15% ABV.
  
  Still very youthful and completely opaque purplish black-red color. Very powerful, sweet and oak-driven nose with opulent aromas of toasty wood, milk chocolate, some vanilla, a little bit of ripe plummy fruit, a hint of blackberry jam and a touch of barnyardy earthiness. The wine is extremely full-bodied, powerful and concentrated on the palate with very extracted, chewy character and bold, fruit-forward flavors of rich dark fruits, pronounced spiciness, sweet toasty oak, some plum jam, a little bit of ripe red fruits and a hint of vanilla. The wine is impressively structured with moderately high acidity and an unyielding wall of massively grippy tannins. The finish is very powerful, tannic and rich with unctuous, oaky flavors of mocha and milk chocolate, some vanilla, a little bit of astringent woody bitterness and hints of jammy dark fruits. The alcohol lends a light but persistent touch of warmth to the aftertaste.
  
  Firstly, I must say that I was impressed by this wine how remarkably structured it was - usually these cult Right Bank wines tend to be just jammy, soft and flabby with no notion whatsoever in regards to the structure. This wine was just jammy, not soft nor flabby. But that's about it when it comes to the positive aspects of this wine. This is just ridiculously overdone, unbalanced rhapsody of excess. Contrasting the balanced acidity and tannins here, there's just too much alcohol, jammy fruit, concentration, extraction and - above all - new oak here. The wine tastes like super-concentrated and somewhat boozy oak beverage with the density of a neutron star. The wine is very impressive by all accounts, but it offers no pleasure whatsoever: it is just straightforward oak bomb with not an iota of depth, finesse or restraint. The wine might turn out complex and impressive after 20 years in a cellar, but as the wine feels more like a new world red than anything related to Bordeaux, I wouldn't be surprised if this wine just pulled the new world trick, i.e. remaining undeveloped for a decade or two and then just fading away quickly. It's hard to come up lousier way of getting rid of 119,90€ than buying a bottle of this. Keep away.

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