2011 Château Malescot St. Exupéry

Community Tasting Notes (42) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  3/9/2024 - ChristoBretts Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Decanted and drank over two days. Reticent nose at first, opens a bit after a lot of air, a bit more open on day 2. Black fruit, secondaries not yet coming through, medium tannin. Drinkable but better to wait another year. Other bottles were a little more open than this one.

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  12/17/2023 - stayhappy21 wrote: 91 Points

  Brought this to my close friend from the University days' place for a gathering with our fellow University mates. It was a combined Christmas celebration and a farewell to her current residence.
  
  Dark purple in colour with beautiful aromatics on the nose. Fragrant bouquet coupled with fresh plums, blueberries, French toast, licquorice, and forest floor. Drinking this wine now reminds the drinker of a walk along the streams in the gardens in early spring, with the earth coming back to life and pockets of surprise awaits the patient.
  
  What was exceptional about the wine is that little decanting is required, and all the elements are in their place with the wine hitting all the right notes. The 2011 has been touted as an early drinking vintage (and rightfully so), but based on this wine it is a highly underrated one as well.

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  11/20/2023 - Mark4w Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Bet smooth left bank Bordeaux. Graphite tar with mild hints of blackberry. Very smooth tannins

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  10/8/2023 - Purple Tooth wrote: 94 Points

  *A CORAVINED BOTTLE FROM 2 MONTHS AGO.
  
  If I had any apprehension or confusion as to whether this was a keeper or drinker, last night's showing cleared my head. All I can say is wow! So beautifully pungent and earthy, so balanced, so serious and so long...From the bouquet to the finish, this wine screamed Bordeaux. Wow as a 2011, wow for the modest price of Malescot, and wow as a Bordeaux period. Drink with 60 minute plus decant for best showing. It can hold, but no need to miss this. It is totally in the zone.

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  8/19/2023 - ChristoBretts Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Brought to room temperature from 58-F cellar, decanted three hours, drank over three days. Reticent on day one, very little giving to the nose, some fruit on the palate, along with medium+ tannin and acidity. Day two a little fruit and tar on the nose, tannin and acidity present but not overly so. Day three, black fruit and forest floor on the nose, that along with mushroom and graphite on the palate, these flavors behind the tannin and acidity which at this point has integrated. 92 on day three. I will hold the rest for a year, and give a very long decant.

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