2004 Château La Clémence

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  1/17/2016 - ELH wrote: 87 Points

  The cork crumbled, making it five out of six bottles where this has happened. That said, the wine did not appear flawed.

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  1/4/2016 - ELH wrote: 87 Points

  Cork crumbled on opening, although the wine did not seem flawed. Of the five bottles opened thus far, the cork crumbled on four of them. Hmmm.

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  12/12/2015 - forceberry wrote: 93 Points

  Concentrated, fully opaque and even somewhat hazy black cherry appearance - there's a lot of sediment in the wine, so careful decanting is more than recommended. At first the nose is pungent, dry and smoky with aromas of fresh dark berries and savory wood spice, but the nose opens up to reveal some sweeter, jammy red-fruited tones, a little bit of bretty animal character, light Band-Aid tones, a hint of wild funk, a touch of charred wood and a whiff of blackcurrant marmalade. The wine is dense, full-bodied and concentrated on the palate with flavors of ripe dark berries, bright cherry tones, some toasty oak tones, a little bit of peppery spice, light cigar box notes, a hint of succulent plummy fruit and a bitter touch of extracted wood. The wine is surprisingly tough and structured on the palate with fresh high acidity and firm, grippy tannins. The finish is quite tough and grippy with noticeable tannic action on the gums and lengthy flavors of savory oak spice, cedar, fresh dark berries, some pipe tobacco, a little bit of sweeter allspice, hints of ripe red plums and black cherries and a touch of phenolic bretty character.
  
  A quite nice, tough and structured Pomerol brimming with youthful, concentrated fruit. The wine is still all too youthful with its tightly-knit, unyielding structure and rather prominent oak character. Without the at times even too obvious oak influence the wine would be very enjoyable - albeit very firmly structured - Bordeaux already, but now the wine seems to call for further aging; not just to soften down the structure, but also to better integrate the oak with the fruit. But I must say that even with its rather noticeable oak (yes, I'm very averse to wood in wines), this is a very lovely and impressive an example of Pomerol. A fine wine that really calls for further aging - and is probably not going to be peaking within the next 10 years. Expect the score go up as the wine ages. Very good value at 39,80€.

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  7/28/2015 - ELH wrote: 89 Points

  Interesting, mature St. Emilion. On the opening, the corked crumbled, but the wine seemed none the worse. Dense dark fruit, soft tannins, very soft, round mouth feel. It has a woodsy (mushrooms?) quality.

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  3/18/2012 - DonalOB wrote: 89 Points

  Right-bank Bordeaux tasting (Watson's, Hong Kong): Pale rim. Dark cherry but not very intense. Balance on the palate with not much tannins. May open more but little further to develop.

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