2009 Chapoutier and Laughton Shiraz La Pleïade

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  12/25/2023 - Fractalage Likes this wine:

  30 hour slow-ox, last glass decanted off sediment.
  
  This wine is no where near ready.
  Give this another decade of bottle age, seriously. This wine is backward and tight. It needs 10 years or more.
  
  Nose has tart coal embers, smoldering earth with some hoisin and ripe black berries.
  Palate is rich and long, it's full and full of tart tobacco berries. The smoke and embers turn into more tars and cigar on the finish. This wine is good, but still tight and needs to resolve much of its baby years.
  
  Its palate is lush and quality, smacking of elegance and expensive juice. The building grip turns into a plastic-like quality, which tells me to hold and drink much later.

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  4/12/2023 - Andrew67 Likes this wine:

  Given my last note, am not sure what has changed - probably me. I enjoyed this. It is not a big wine, but currently it is in a sweet spot of balance. It does lack a distinguishing element, but everything is harmonious. I thought I was moving away from La Pleiade, but this bottle, and a '10 we had a couple of weeks ago, are bringing me back. It has some life as well.

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  4/2/2023 - oldcorke wrote: 92 Points

  Not ready to drink. This was decanted 1-2 hrs before tasting with many other wines, including 01 Chapoutier Cote Rotie & 09 Janasse VV CdP. Necessary components are all place, but not yet well integrated. The direction of this wine could be appreciated by drinking with well regarded CdPs of same vintage, but, it really needs 5-6 more years, I think.

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  4/1/2022 - graemeg wrote:

  {cork, 14.5%} Some development evident here in the garnet-with-softening-rim colour. Flavours and aromas of liquorice, soy, blood, iron, black plums. Fine medium dusty tannins, good presence of acid. Medium/full weight, heft and earth. Feels like it will age forever. Carries the alcohol well, medium length finish. Not a huge personality, but that might come with more time; there's no rush to drink this. Long cork under a stupid wax top.

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  12/8/2019 - Andrew67 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Drunk over 2 nights. There is good structure here, but perhaps for the first time I would describe an Australian shiraz as lacking fruit It just needs something else. The acidity is not filling the gap. To be clear, I am happy to drink the other bottles I have, but would like a bit more life somewhere.

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