Exceptional wine - 2 1/2 years since last one and a fair bit more mature. On the nose, it’s incense, spice, earth, black cherry and cassis. What strikes me most is that the wine is calm. Rich, supple, elegant, promisingly sexy. Soft tannins, medium-bodied and beautifully balanced. Easily recognizable as Bordeaux, with its leather, cigar box, dusty earth, cassis. I felt like I was chasing black cherry but didn’t catch it. Sexy, brooding, and a bit of cigar ash on the finish. Several years remain. Wonderful wine. More than held its own in a wine evening with a 2007 Biondi Santi and a 2004 Cappellano Pie Franco. Some nights are just better than others.
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Wine Com tasting Has remnants of blue fruit in the mid-palate and tannins relaxing. This is classic left bank claret. RFD and will go for another five years easily.
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Fantastic St Julien. A bare hint of funk at the open - faintly discernable. And then it blew off. Opens slowly. Decant this. Medium bodied. No signs of bricking. Still showed firm tannins but they loosen nicely as it evolved in the glass. Graphite, cassis, tobacco. Medium-long finish. Extremely well balanced. This still has plenty of time but it's certainly ready now.
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Good showing if not quite as good as the last time I had this wine. Improved with an hour in the decanter. Classic Bordeaux nose, cedar/cigar box, restrained fruit and medium weight and length on the palate. The wine was a bit leaner than the last bottle I had of this. Still glad I have more. 12.5% alcohol. They don’t make em like this any more.
Drank last nite at CKH French wine dinner. I've had this bottle many times, having bought a case way back when. This clearly was this wine's best showing ever! Nose exudes aromas of cigar box, lead pencil, black fruit and forest floor. Medium body, plenty of fruit, black cherries, cigar box, tobacco, green pepper, lead pencil, etc.--everything you'd want and expect from a premier aged left bank Bdx. Perfect acidity level to balance the wine, soft, but still-noticeable tannins, pleasingly long finish, with great concentration and balance. This is a sexy, yet brooding bottle of wine that is only now reaching it's heights 24 years in. Expected good, received great! I'm very happy I still have a few bottles left. Bravo!
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3/24/2024 - randyjc wrote: 96 Points
Exceptional wine - 2 1/2 years since last one and a fair bit more mature. On the nose, it’s incense, spice, earth, black cherry and cassis. What strikes me most is that the wine is calm. Rich, supple, elegant, promisingly sexy. Soft tannins, medium-bodied and beautifully balanced. Easily recognizable as Bordeaux, with its leather, cigar box, dusty earth, cassis. I felt like I was chasing black cherry but didn’t catch it. Sexy, brooding, and a bit of cigar ash on the finish. Several years remain. Wonderful wine. More than held its own in a wine evening with a 2007 Biondi Santi and a 2004 Cappellano Pie Franco. Some nights are just better than others.
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3/6/2024 - SaltWine wrote:
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Has remnants of blue fruit in the mid-palate and tannins relaxing. This is classic left bank claret. RFD and will go for another five years easily.
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2/25/2024 - WineCPA wrote: 95 Points
Fantastic St Julien. A bare hint of funk at the open - faintly discernable. And then it blew off. Opens slowly. Decant this. Medium bodied. No signs of bricking. Still showed firm tannins but they loosen nicely as it evolved in the glass. Graphite, cassis, tobacco. Medium-long finish. Extremely well balanced. This still has plenty of time but it's certainly ready now.
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2/13/2024 - Luvwine1 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Good showing if not quite as good as the last time I had this wine. Improved with an hour in the decanter. Classic Bordeaux nose, cedar/cigar box, restrained fruit and medium weight and length on the palate. The wine was a bit leaner than the last bottle I had of this. Still glad I have more. 12.5% alcohol. They don’t make em like this any more.
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2/9/2024 - cephomer Likes this wine: 95 Points
Drank last nite at CKH French wine dinner. I've had this bottle many times, having bought a case way back when. This clearly was this wine's best showing ever! Nose exudes aromas of cigar box, lead pencil, black fruit and forest floor. Medium body, plenty of fruit, black cherries, cigar box, tobacco, green pepper, lead pencil, etc.--everything you'd want and expect from a premier aged left bank Bdx. Perfect acidity level to balance the wine, soft, but still-noticeable tannins, pleasingly long finish, with great concentration and balance. This is a sexy, yet brooding bottle of wine that is only now reaching it's heights 24 years in. Expected good, received great! I'm very happy I still have a few bottles left. Bravo!
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