1972 Chateau Musar

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  12/8/2022 - champussi Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Es gibt sie! Die großen Weine aus 1972. Wenn auch ganz ganz selten! 😢 Chateau Musar: Ein Geburtstagsgeschenk von meinem besten Freund! Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault, Merlot, Carignan - 14 % Alk./Vol. Eine Flasche aus der Chateau-Reserve. Irgendwann während der letzten 10 Jahre (geschätzt nach Ansicht des Korkens) auf dem Weingut aufgefüllt, neu verkorkt und etikettiert! Bezogen über einen der wenigen deutschen Direktimporteure. Ein Glücksfall !!! - Unfassbar frisch, gleichzeitig warm und rund, rote bis lila ganz leicht eingekochte Früchte, Unterholz, Tabak, würzig, mit schöner feiner Süße. Ein seidiger Rest Gerbstoff. Etwas ganz eigenes, mir fällt nichts vergleichbares ein. Diese Rebsortenkombination wird es ja auch, wenn überhaupt, nicht so häufig geben. Trotzdem immer wieder Assoziationen an die südliche Rhone. Durchaus vollmundig, dabei überhaupt nicht schwer! Mit beachtlicher Länge. Wunderschön!! Aus solchen Flaschen locker noch 10 Jahre! Für mich bisher der Gipfel des Olymp´s aus 1972. Danke Frank! 😘

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  10/13/2022 - Ben F Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Dinner at Cafe at Chez Panisse, Berkeley, CA. From 750ml purchased from importer. Popped, decanted and poured.
  
  A wine to remember. Made hitting the 50 year mark seem not so old, given the life in this bottle. Mature but still clearly within the plateau of enjoyable drinking. Shame it was my last bottle.

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  6/30/2022 - 911henrik wrote: 92 Points

  Amazing that it held up so well. Classic Musat notes of petroleum and nail polish remover.

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  1/30/2021 - Lype Likes this wine:

  Clean and pure claret type of wine, fresh and very good fruit, no volatility often found is red Musars, this was a well kept excellent bottle, just perfect.

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  9/17/2019 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Ch. Musar Dinner with Marc Hochar (The Bunker, Crown Wine Cellars, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Pre-decanted for around 6 hours by Marc Hochar. Surprisingly, my first experience of this vintage. Slightly dusky velvet red in colour. Nose is WOW!....very tertiary but still so fresh....so sniffable...ethereal....this is angels dancing in your cerbral cortex. Palate is deep, plummy and rich with hints of cognac....almost Christmas pudding because it also has that nuttiness. It just resonates and resonates lightly in your head forever. Gosh, beautiful.

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