1980 Chateau Musar

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  8/15/2023 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:

  paling red with age on the rim, supple leather and barnyard on the nose, soft cherries and bramble, on the palate penetrating in depth while maintaining a light and deft feel, clear mineral notes, genteel fruit and leather, fine long calming finish, lovely savory notes with time, ready to drink and I would drink sooner than later.
  
  ***+, ready to go

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  11/13/2021 - brigcampbell wrote:

  Musar is special for lots of reasons and the variation in bottles and vintages is part of the game. This bottle was incredibly clean. I don't know if I would have guessed Musar blind but it certainly is very representative of what this winery is capable of producing and the fact that it's over 40 years old is absolutely incredible.

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  11/12/2021 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  This was shared with me last night. Gotta say, for a 40 year old, this neither smells nor tastes like it. The freshness on this wine was remarkable, the fruit alive and present. And from what I recall, I sensed nothing that indicated aged features. Said another way, if this was served to me blind, I would not think a 40 year old was in front me. Hell, maybe not even a 10 year old wine. Very very good. Thanks to Counselor Seiber for bringing this to dinner last night.

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  8/5/2018 - Rimbe wrote: 93 Points

  (Dinner at home, on a Sunday)
  An intense and provocative wine. Highly enjoyable, needs to be surrounded by laughter and flirtation. With rose, cedar tree, petrol and musk.
  
  On the nose, there is an strong petrol and musk smell, which on taste bursts into an intense rose surrounded by smouldering ash from cedar trees. The wine dances mercilessly on the tongue. A valiant and ageing gypsy living amongst the cedar trees, romancing at sunset.

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  3/10/2018 - Kirk Grant wrote:

  A gathering of wine geeks (The Greater Boston Area): This was almost rosé-esque in the glass. The nose smells of a dust-covered, oil-stained cement floor with notes of kirsch, and tobacco. On the palate there's the typical notes of cherry-cough-drop, molasses, raspberry, with a lingering note of wild strawberry and mushrooms...this is just so silky-smooth. This is an excellent wine...but it's just a shadow of the last bottle we had from this vintage. This bottle was sourced and imported through the UK. Once again confirming my beliefs that the bottles that are imported by Broadbent show differently (and usually for the better in my mind).

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