2000 Château de Mercuès Cahors

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  4/7/2014 - Svengali_Luddite Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Delicate and elegant. Not the usual descriptors for Cahors wine but the fourteen years between picking and drinking have softened the tannins and colour of this predominantly Malbec wine.
  Earthy nose, dank forest and mushroom, with glimpses of herb. On the mouth, muted dark fruit, plum, cinnamon and cream, gives way quickly to umami and wood and, after more air, herbs and slight menthol finish. Very round buttery feel. In short complex but subtle. It won't knock you off your chair, but rather, keep you sitting in it a little longer. Drinking well now, but probably past it's peak by a year or two; I wouldn't wait any longer.

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  1/8/2014 - johnny wine Likes this wine: 90 Points

  The wine looks inky colored. The legs are medium. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells like raspberry, strawberry jam, plum, forest floor and coffee. It tastes like cedar. The body is medium/full. The wine has round texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity.

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