2005 Château Bel-Air (Domaines Martin)

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 85.9 points

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  2/27/2017 - ProfByron wrote: 87 Points

  It's rich, ripe but also slightly green. Not a bad wine but it hasn't developed in a good way, few minor bordeaux do. Starting to exhibit oxidation tomato sauce character in the background.
  
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  10/18/2013 - Brsed wrote: 89 Points

  Excellent value. Has developed quite nicely. Sweet Black fruits with earth and brambles. Wonderful texture.

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  7/15/2012 - ricard wrote: 88 Points

  Dark, opaque, blackberry colour. Aromas are contradictory: a distinctly rustic sodden-earth nose vies for attention against the sweet perfume of blueberry jam. The wine is tannic and slightly bitter, but rounds out quite nicely into a long, layered finish expressing toffee, burnt sugar, toasted oaky notes and pipe tobacco. The central fruit core is slightly overwhelmed by these other characteristics, which in my opinion should be secondary, and therefore as a result the wine is a little lacking in balance. Nonetheless, a well-structured, decently-priced claret from an intense and no doubt long-lasting vintage.

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  1/21/2012 - ricard wrote: 88 Points

  Truffles, pencil shavings, cedar, cigar box aromas. Initially a bit thin, possibly even sharp, but leading to a nicely rounded finish with tasty sweet cherry and blackberry fruit, and a truffly and minty finish. Perfectly decent claret, but hardly anything to rave about.

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  9/3/2011 - BHP1994 wrote: 84 Points

  Pretty closed initially. Decanted for 2 hrs and it opened up only slightly. Muted dark fruits but not a lot there. Rather tannic. Not what I had hoped.

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