2016 Château La Conseillante

Community Tasting Notes (38) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  2/29/2024 - nywine68 wrote: 93 Points

  Vinous Icons of Bordeaux with Neal Martin (Legacy Records, New York City): The 2016 showed beautifully tonight. A very consistent pattern of bright red ripe fruit. This wine was very pretty and feminine. Superfine tannins.

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  1/2/2024 - Jumbo-Jet Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Unfortunately a bit of a disappointment as the 2024 new year drink. Promising "loaded" nose with dark blackcurrant tones, but also vanilla/strawberry, flintstones, a little concrete, hints of vegetables / cabbage, not fully balanced but definitely promising. On the palate, despite a few hours of oxygenation, light, sour and short in comparison. None of the mouth coating long finishes some other Conseillantes deliver... enjoyable, but definitely not at a good QPR point for drinking right now.

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  10/2/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points

  20-vintage La Conseillante vertical (Fribourg): Part of a 20 vintage vertical (key takeaways in the tasting story). Ripe and concentrated but not overly extracted red cherry fruit. Leather and a bit of tobacco as well as some graphite minerality. Red flowers. Densely packed palate, juicy and vibrant with plenty of acidity which was needed to balance the tannin. Maybe a bit of an abrupt finish. Can’t ignore a bit of heat here as well. Added a notch or so in complexity over the last couple of years and definitely one of the more pleasing vintages in the line-up.

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  10/2/2023 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  20 Vintages of La Conseillante (1947-2020): All wines tasted blind. I have had many beautiful Conseillantes in the past, but in this tasting the wines did not shine as expected. A few thoughts: A) Conseillante is a seductive, sensual wine, not unlike more Bordeaux-esque Napa Valley wines. In fact, it reminded me a lot of Opus One, with the blue and black forest berry aromas found in almost every vintage. B) The fruit is ripe, but never too ripe. But only in the cooler years (and 2020) is the fruit perfectly pure and fresh. C) Even in the newer vintages, the (luxurious) oak notes are still present and will need some time to be fully absorbed. D) My biggest problem (and the group had the same one) was that almost all of the newer vintages showed alcohol notes that weren't noticeable en primeur or in the Arrivage tastings (and the wines were served at a perfect temperature or rather a little too cold). E) There were some beautiful wines, complex and seductive, but La Conseillante is not a wine for classic Bordeaux or Left Bank lovers. Conseillante is the hot one-night stand, not the elegant and intellectually appealing wine I want to drink every day. F) The best wine was the 2020 (96pts, the only score above 95pts), confirming my impression that it is a better, less ripe Bordeaux vintage than 2019.
  
  TN: A bit muted nose. Quite ripe, even some alcohol notes. On the palate there is ripe dark fruit and not as much definition. But there is a lot of temporarily suppressed substance here and the structure was fine with ripe, round tannins, good tension, good acidity and freshness and an overall good balance. Like many 2016s, this is currently in a dump phase and does not show that good. Still, this was 93/94pts
  
  Decanting: The bottle was opened a few hours before consumption but not decanted. This bottle would have needed three to four hours in a decanter but I doubt that it is the right time to open a bottle right now.

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  9/29/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points

  Chateau La Conseillante 1947-2020 tasted blind: Discrete nose, needed some swirling and coaxing. Dark fruit, subtle earthy aromas. Very good palate, medium bodied, precise. Great potential, but don't open before 2032.

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