1945 Château Kirwan

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 97.3 points

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  11/6/2021 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points

  English bottling. Absolutely gorgeous nose displaying sweet tertiary red fruit, strawberry jam, a hint of plum, strong sous bois, light caramel, black truffle, sweet spices and earth. Fully integrated palate, very finely layered elegant red fruit, warm and round, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, and a seamless long warm and sweet red fruit driven finish with sous bois and caramel at the end Despite being three decades old, it still shows generous red fruit. Very memorable wine.

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  9/3/2021 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 98 Points

  Blind Bordeaux 5/6. This was easily the lightest colored wine tonight. It was a gorgeous clear ruby color, with a blue hue. In the mouth, I instantly grinned, this beguiling beauty was an exercise in purity. There was also a beautiful inner core of sweet clear red fruit that was light bodied, and laced with the lightest hint of spice. This might be in a most perfect place as it has obviously shed all thoughts of youth, while having no qualities of old age. Perfect. I think I wrote pretty in my bullets three times. This might be the first nearly perfect 1945 I have drunk, and wow impressive! British bottling. Not in decline! (98)

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  9/3/2021 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 97 Points

  Poured blind in a flight where it was immediately apparent every wine here was gonna dunk every wine in the last flight, and even in that context the instant you take a sip of this wine it's a "boom" moment, just an absolute no-doubter it was going to be the star of the trio and would turn out to be something special. The aromas start out soft but sweet, with a little bit of cinnamon; the fireworks don't start until you take a sip. It's one of those wines that doesn't so much cross the palate as absolutely billow around it. It feels more gaseous than liquid but dense just the same as it's absolutely packed with an array of deep, dark, complex flavors ranging from truffles to pitched soil. They build up in the aroma too as the wine opens up in the glass and then it's one of those wines that gives you a pure sweep of wild aromas and keeps the crescendo going from beginning to end as it tastes just like it smells. There is nothing in here that could really be called fruit but what's left still has plenty of power and scale. Interesting artifact as this was a UK merchant bottling (looks like "Lyons & Company" through the damaged label).

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