1985 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Community Tasting Notes (76) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  11/18/2023 - AudunG wrote: 93 Points

  Typical Pauillac aromas, with dark berries, pencil and leather, in addition to some foxy barnyard aromas. Soft and elegant, with fine tannins and a dry finish. Kept several hours in the glass without fading.

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  7/21/2023 - NewFrenchClaret Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Perfect fill. Very medicinal when popped, but this settled down over time. Nice dusty Pauillac smell, bit of mint. Fairly simple. Tasty enough, good sweetness. Tannins hanging on gamely, but relatively little acidity and it all feels like it's lacking structure.
  
  Can't say I'm wowed by this to be honest, but there's nothing wrong with it. Consistent with its ranking, but there are much better wines for less money in this vintage.

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  5/31/2023 - TONOFBRIX Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drank at old-school Italian restaurant. Surprisingly wonderful. Fruit fading but not gone, tertiary flavors abound, nicely balanced.

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  8/15/2022 - chablis28 wrote: 93 Points

  Kicking myself, for making the wrong guess on how much air this needed! After a quick sip upon opening, I thought a quick decant would quickly flesh this out by dinner time an hour later. For most of the night it was healthy and drinking like a pleasant 90pt 36yr old BDX that had lost most of its fruit a few years back. A bit thin. Then 2+ hours later with one glass left, the fruit magically appeared and this was easily drinking like a solid 93+ aged BDX and may have further improved if, I had any left :). Oh well, chalk this up to fickle nature of aged wines! The last glass was sublime in every way nose and palate both. 93+

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  7/22/2022 - Jd6725 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Holding up much better than expected, although probably a little way through it's downslope. Very interesting and clean early. Developed more tertiary complexities later on, but I preferred the early freshness.

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