1999 Château Lamartine Cahors Cuvée Particulière

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 88 points

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  9/19/2014 - eboracum Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This wine is holding up remarkably well; quite a lot of a TN dating from 2008 still applies. Colour was a still youthful red of medium density with little bricking. The nose was expressive with red berries and touches of tar and wet leather. The palate showed similar aromas to those on the nose displayed in a classically well balanced mouth-shape with a good body of fruit, more underlying roundness than I noted in 2008, firm tannic structure and good length with tar notes becoming more prominent on the finish. This wine is in the savoury register with noticeable acidity and a certain rigour and classy austerity. There were none of the oaky notes which are controversial in Probus, Cèdre, Lagrézette and big brother Cuvée Expression from this estate. Very good.

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  3/29/2010 - jkoenen wrote: 88 Points

  Grab Bag Tasting @ my place (Netherlands): Dark red, slightly translucent. Sweetish, phenolic very ripe nose of red fruit. Not overly perfumed, neatly composed, fresh, elegant and some prickling in the nose. Acidity is hardly perceptible on the tongue. The wine's aromatics seem to be searching direction, wandering. So were we. I was commuting between Tuscan Sangiovese and Morgon Gamay. Tasty wine, though. 16.5/20

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  12/7/2008 - king-bing wrote:

  Still pretty dark and barely looks 3 years old. Rather like a tannic good quality minor left bank Bordeaux. Nice and savoury. No hurry to drink this. Excellent value at £8.

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