1998 Château Soutard

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 88.6 points

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  12/24/2023 - winelover1982 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I bought this wine on futures. I have been drinking this every year or two since it was released in 2002. It has always been a disappointment until last year when it developed into something enjoyable. I opened a bottle today. The bottle was in pristine condition. Right after opening the nose was muted and the taste of old wood barrel and tannin; not very attractive. After two hours it started to lose the old wood taste. At three hours the old wood faded and round fruit begun to emerged. At four hours it developed into a nice older Bordeaux with green tea leaf, tobacco, round fruit. If I didn't know I would have thought it was a Graves. The wine was not decanted.

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  10/16/2023 - HWG99 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Past prime but it is still a good one to drink. the current peak is after around an hour of decant. It showed the character on the nose with attractive berries mixed with a fine smoky cinnamons. Medium body wine with nice acidic sour plum finishing.

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  11/4/2021 - Wineteacher wrote: 86 Points

  Soutard style is traditional with a bit of rusticity. From such a celebrated Right Bank vintage, I had expected a lot. The wine was medium bodied and decanted well, with minimal sediment. Nicely red with a bit of tile on the edge. The wine smelled rubbery at first but double decanting got rid of that. The disappointment is not that the wine is not good but It fails to delivery complexity and more multi-dimensionality than what it has turned out to be. Too much neutrality and short in fruit and lushness. Lots of structure but short on flavor complexity and mid-palate body. A bit hallow. Hard to say if it is too young. But at this point, I might as well wait to see if more stuff comes along.

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  5/16/2020 - Paul S wrote: 89 Points

  Zoom blind tasting #4: Bordeaux (At home during circuit breaker): Disappointing for a classed growth from a great vintage like 1998, this felt a little past prime. It had a very mature nose of soy and sous bois, earth and meat, alongside some plums and dark berries, and then a little seasoning of spice. The palate lacked a bit of shape, with soft acidity and round tannins alongside a rather plush mouthful of dark plums and berries layered over a base of earth, meat and a little spice. A touch flat for 1998 right-bank I thought, this felt like it was just rather flagging towards the finish. All in all, decent enough a wine, but not great.

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  12/31/2019 - premiercru1973 Does not like this wine: 80 Points

  Past maturity!

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