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Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 94.3 points

  • Surprising how fresh and still with so much structure after 59 years! Still has many more years of life.

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  • Dusty complexion with good dark red fruit. Lacks some richness but a complete wine. 92-93

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  • Tasted amazingly fresh for a 50 year-old wine, and really opened up after about an hour. Nice dark colour, tobacco and fruit notes on the nose. Still has life left...'61 bordeaux lives up to its rep! Amusing to me that it seemed like it needed time when we first popped the cork.

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  • Florida trip. Amazingly well preserved. Bottle and label pristine. Cork stained through. Very little if any bricking. Looks and smells like a ten year old wine. Tobacco, dried flowers, beautiful fruit still prominent. Nice finish.

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  • 1961 Chasse Spleen - Auction bottle, very high shoulder. Upon pulling of the capsule to my dismay the wine had had previous seepage!! As I pulled the cork I was becoming optimistic that it would come out in one piece........Wrong the bottom third of the cork broke in the neck of the bottle. I was able to remove all of the cork however without any falling into the wine which had been standing in the cellar for 4 days. Once the cork was popped I began to pour immediately. I could smell the wine as I poured which gave me hope that the bottle was not dead. The nose is mature red fruits, un-mistakable cedar and tobacco that only old Bordeaux can provide. I quickly tasted, and to my delight the wine was not dead. The palate offered more cedar, tobacco, cherry, and almost saline like taste (in a good way). The finish lasted about eight seconds in length and there wasn't one tannin left in the perfectly integrated wine. I am happy that this wine was not dead (because it should have been given the previous seepage) but I would love to try a bottle that had no seepage whatsoever. All and all I was lucky with this auction bottle. 92 pts.

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  • By Neal Martin
    The Cat’s Whiskers: Bordeaux 1961 (Oct 2019), 10/1/2019, (See more on Vinous...)

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