1996 Château Bouscassé Madiran

Community Tasting Notes (9) Median Score: 87 points

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  2/2/2016 - thunberg wrote: 89 Points

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  Has matured well but is on its way down. Lovely mature nose, the tannins are now smooth, still some acidity. Lacks some body on the palate though.

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  3/22/2014 - winosot Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I purchased this wine in the Spring of 2000 in an Intermarche store in Noyon brought it back to the UK and it has been carefully cellared since. Have been longing to open it and decided the time was right. Wow This wine is everything you would expect a mature quality Madiran to be. Savoury and earthy on the nose with dense dark fruit on the palate and a long long finish. The tannins which would have been mouth puckering in its youth have softened and the wine has a roundness which made it a real pleasure to savour. I have had a number of older bottles of Madiran over the years and I think the tannat grape is interesting and worthy of patience to be kept and this is the best I have tasted. Bouscasse, along with Montus is the best regarded and deservedly so. Good drinking if you have kept it well!!

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  6/26/2012 - Zweder wrote: 86 Points

  Fairly light red color; not what I am used to from this tannat. In the bouquet red fruits and roses. On the palate red fruits and elegant acidity. In fact the acidity is a bit dominating and the wine might be even a little past its prime. Drink now or soon.

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  10/16/2011 - Strikermax wrote:

  Donkerrood/zwart van kleur met wat oranje verkleuring aan de rand. Tertiare aroma's van cederhout, leer en chocolade. Doet in eerste instantie wat dun aan, maar na enige tijd in het glas fraaie zuren, pruimen en kruiden. Zachte, maar duidelijk aanwezige tannines in de middellange afdronk met iets bitter. Mooie belegen, elegante wijn. 88 punten (vanwege verkoudheid nu geen "officiële" score).

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  1/10/2011 - Jools wrote: flawed

  flawed

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