2012 Château du Retout

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 87.0 points

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  4/9/2020 - kvd2 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Color: Medium purple
  Nose: Very Earthy and Mushroomy Notes
  Taste: Heavy Blackberry and Earthy Notes upfront; Lots of Plum, Spices and even some Earthy Mushroom and Coffee notes lingers
  Comp’s: Classic Left Bank Bordeaux with Nice Cab Sauv in the Under $30 Range; The nose is quite unique and is much different to the taste profile; pretty solid with food especially hearty cheeses

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  8/7/2019 - Mr. Slate Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Decanted for an hour and paired with grilled Delmonico steak dinner. Nice fruit, floral, and earth on the nose that followed through on the palate with dust and leather. A little thin on the mid palate. Some green olive just before the finish. Fruit, earth, and dusty finish. Worked well with the meal.

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  1/31/2019 - tsdv wrote: 85 Points

  Coarse drying tannin, rough dusty wine. 6 years old and not yet enjoyable, so future is a crap shoot.

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  11/20/2018 - FransS wrote: 87 Points

  A reliable château, a bit rough, a good, firm finish, missing, however, some complexity in the midtaste.

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  2/20/2018 - rahul_d_chatter@yahoo.com Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Bone dry old world wine. Drank straight out of the bottle. That was a mistake. Tannins are still strong which makes the wine angular and difficult to drink. Please decant for hours before drinking and pair it with a nice steak. This is not your sipping wine for the evening. This is a strong and brooding, with lots of rough edges, strong tobacco and leather smell. Decent wine for the price.

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