2005 Château Bolaire

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  4/29/2023 - OhioNerd Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Weak nose. Blackberry, earth and cedar
  Palate is simple - earth, blackberry and moderate tannins. Maybe a few spices as well.
  Medium finish.
  Not going to get better.
  Not bad, aging well but not great.

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  11/20/2020 - dlowrey99 Likes this wine: 87 Points

  doing well for a 15 year old superieur, still strong tannins and dark brooding fruit/earth. agree with others the wine is straightforward, but still enjoyable in its simplicity. great for easy drinking to pair with food - i had it with beef stew and mushroom swiss burgers over two nights.

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  5/20/2020 - GGinSF wrote: 86 Points

  Interesting, but not thrilling. At $17 on release, it's held up surprising well for 15 years but it didn't blossom into a high-end Bordeaux.

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  2/18/2020 - PIntag wrote: 88 Points

  Showed a bit better than the bottle from last month. Again, the large percentage of PV makes this an interesting, if not atypical, Bordeaux red. Enjoyable, but not nearly as good as a bottle of 2005 Chateau Chatelet that was consumed prior to this.

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  1/25/2020 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Poured from magnum, auction bottle, nose of black berry, boysenberry, and allspice, on the palate, big body, tasty, mouth filling fruit, smart purchase from a great vintage for $63, enough fruit, complexity, and polish that easily rewards your cellar efforts, medium/long finish, good stuff in other vintages suggest you try it.

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