1998 Château Gigault Cuvée Viva

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 86.8 points

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  9/25/2018 - liber wrote: 84 Points

  Last of 12, opened 45 minutes, perfect cork and level, more attractive than my last note would suggest and probably the most attractive bottle from case, the nose is plum merlot driven but is now showing some nuance, on palate it is less the fruit bomb of yore and the dusty tannins are better integrated, so the entry is attractive and surprisingly pure, sweetish, dense if not particularly layered, but given the initial impact it is short with flavours that die away quickly on the back palate, after 30 minutes signs of the wine falling apart, drink up and resist the temptation, if any, to re-buy. QG+ (14.5).

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  11/11/2014 - liber Does not like this wine: 80 Points

  11th of 12, perfect fill, opened 40 mins but not decanted - I was put into this by Farr on its release and should have resisted as it represents everything I dislike about Parkerised claret (it was sold following an improbably high Parker score). Always intensely coloured, initially it was a fruit bomb, if a little crude and rustic, the fruit fell away about five years ago leaving not a lot. This bottle was surprisingly attractive on the nose if more redolent of a good Rhone, on the palate it was initially a block of dusty fruit (squashed plums) with some mid palate intensity but no length or purity, after 40 minutes even this disappeared and it became a weighty dusty blob, clearly bettered on night by Chianti La Massa 99 decanted into a half bottle from a week earlier. Life's too short to be bothered with this. At best average (13/20).

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  11/7/2011 - Baylorwine wrote: 88 Points

  Non complex, but enjoyable.

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  8/7/2011 - nakar65 wrote:

  Bof pas top au premier abord... Beaucoup alcool peu de gout..

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  6/17/2011 - joishscellar wrote: 88 Points

  N - faint old leather with some plum
  P - no fruit at all, some tannins, almost tasted like cheese with woodchips, short finish

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