2006 Chateau Musar

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  2/14/2024 - ChateauDutremble Likes this wine: 94 Points

  3e et dernier 2006...voir notes précédentes.
  Encore tellement frais...et son fruit...merveilleux !! Je m'entendais à plus d'arômes tertiaires mais ce fruit délicieux domine et persiste...
  Équilibré, harmonieux, savoureux, long et rond...j'aurai pu lui laisser atteindre son 20 ans facilement !

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  2/3/2024 - boillatm Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Third time Musar after the 1998 and 2000 vintages.
  This is something else totally. Brawny, full-bodied, almost like a Cal Cab. I liked it but am wondering how it's going to age.

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  8/26/2023 - NiklasW Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Decanted for an hour and a half. Delicious, perhaps on the brawny side of a Musar, but still sour cherries amongst the blackberries, tannins quite resolved, but no leather or VA. This bottle not quite what one would wait from a Musar, but very good in any case!

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  5/5/2023 - lloyd.cochrane@googlemail.com wrote:

  Deep brick red. Very strong caramel and toffee aroma with lots of vanilla and then spice. Really really good. Rich Christmas cake spices, warmth and soft tannins. Very drinkable, lovely. Will age further but great to drink now

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  3/11/2023 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  2006 was a very difficult vintage, but not that much because of the climatic conditions – which were remarkable by themselves, feeling like a never-ending spring with only 10 days of summer weather – but due to the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. Although it seemed that there wouldn't be any opportunity to do harvest the fruit at all, everybody still carried on normally despite the volatile conditions and fortunately a ceasefire came before the harvest. However, unlike the vintages that normally feel ready to be released after 7 years of aging, this wine was still in shambles in 2013 when the wine was supposed to be released, which is why the winery decided to postpone the release for a year. And then another. And yet another. Finally, the wine was ready for release in the spring of 2017. 14% alcohol. From a magnum; the wine was aerated in two decanters for four hours before tasting the wine.
  
  Deep, dark and almost fully opaque blackish-red color with an evolved plummy hue. The nose feels evolved, somewhat old and moderately tertiary with aromas of wizened dark berries and pruney dark fruit, some balsamic notes of VA, a little bit of old leathery, light earthy nuances, dried-fruit hints of raisins and dried figs and an autumnal touch of damp leaves. The wine feels evolved, silky and sweet-toned on the palate with a full body and juicy flavors of ripe figs and pruney dark fruits, some strawberry tones, a little bit of leathery funk, light dried-fruit notes of raisins and dried dates, a hint of balsamic VA and a touch of tobacco. The overall feel is somewhat soft and mellow with its medium-to-moderately high acidity and somewhat resolved, slightly grippy tannins. The finish is juicy, ripe and sweet-toned with some tannic grip and a slightly tertiary aftertaste of dried dates and raisiny dark fruit, some strawberry tones, a little bit of tobacco, light pruney nuances, a hint of leathery funk and a touch of balsamic VA.
  
  I remember how this wine seemed a bit soft and surprisingly raisiny back when it was released. Back then I commented how the wine seemed a bit similar like those sunny, almost pruney Plavac Mali wines of Croatia and expressed hope in how the wine could pick up some depth and complexity with age, even if the vintage didn't seem that promising. Well, it seems my hopes are turning out to be unfounded: the wine is just more pruney and raisiny in character and the structure has softened up, only emphasizing those dried-fruit notes. I really don't see why people give this vintage raving reviews here in CT, because in my books this has always been a bit iffy vintage for a Musar and it doesn't seem to be aging that gracefully. Unless my view is skewed by a constant flux of less-than-optimally performing bottles, I must say this wine is a far cry from a great Musar. Not worth the price at 39,90€.

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