2010 Château Mejean

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  8/28/2022 - Fruitsrouges Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium garnet, beautiful bricking at the rim
  M+ Intensity nose, a bit reticent but pleasurable aromas of
  Red and black fruit (red and black currant) with violets and slight note of tar, baking spice particularly cinnamon, eucalyptus, mushroom, still presenting young to the nose
  M+ acid attack in balance with high, gritty tannins
  M+ Body, M alcohol, this Mejean is light on its feet
  Medium finish (will this develop)
  VG Wine with clear further aging potential given fruit still present and strong acid/tannin structure, even likely to improve
  
  I would not hesitate to drink now but decant for at least 1hr (My tasting was closer to PNP)

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  7/29/2021 - Joesap wrote: 91 Points

  My Grade: EX. Tannic and somewhat unapproachable when young, this wine still showed a lot of promise and good aging potential. 10 years on it is into its drinking window. Great color: deep opaque purple with some rim- bricking, subdued but complex nose of cassis, blackberry, tar, vanilla, baking bread, shoe polish, forest floor. Very focused, intense, sour black fruit on the palate with burnt-toast, cranberry, tobacco and cedar. It still has great structure with fine-lined acidity and well-integrated, firm tannins. Very long, complex finish of sour cassis and cranberry. Unquestionably Graves in character. Great winemaking, which you don't expect at this price point and from a great vintage too! Hard to find in US.

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  11/15/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 Points

  Nice value wine play that is already showing off its dark cherry fruit complicated with smoke, thyme, earth and cigar wrapper accents. Medium/full bodied, round and open for business. This is not a wine for aging, but one that is ready to drink today.

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  10/31/2015 - tekygeek wrote: 85 Points

  Given other taster's notes I was looking forward to this but sadly it was not interesting in any way. I appreciated the gravely earthiness but it lacked charm, finesse, and integration. Maybe it was in a dumb phase.

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  7/7/2015 - Matt Scott Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Decanted for two hours. Concentrated and polished, this colossus of a vin could use a few more years, however, is quite long and evocative. Crushed rock, currant, lilies and fresh tobacco; very Graves in so many ways. Quite modern. Drink 2019 - 2034.

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