1999 Château Canon de Brem

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  12/18/2015 - mark_m_owen wrote: 87 Points

  On the wane. Plenty still in there, but with this bottle the zing was muted, fruit a little dulled. Pretty well assembled glass, but drink up should you have some left.
  
  Of course, with the label gone, every pop is another bit of history disappearing.

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  9/18/2015 - mark_m_owen wrote: 88 Points

  Still doing OK, not so fresh but plenty of black and a litlle red fruit, medium bodied, smooth tannins with a bit of astringency. Medium finish. Good wine in it's twilight. Give some air.

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  9/4/2015 - BcDuncan wrote: 89 Points

  this was a perfect time to drink this wine, it still has lovely fruit and flavour and more than met my expectations; good value

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  4/2/2013 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Bordeaux. ooh ah. What is it good for? Absolutely...
  
  Apologies to Edwin Starr. What sane individual buys Bordeaux any more, except the tres and nouveaux riches? Not me. It's not entirely a fair stance to take because after all, there is the "wine lake" to consider, that is, an absurd ocean of Bordeaux available at all price levels and quality levels that tends to get lost in the wash. Maybe as a reaction to the high end price atrocities, I've tended to shy away from the region altogether. So this is kind of fun, a 14 year-old Fronsac from a middlin' vintage which if it ever had a chance was buried between the Right Bank successes of 1998 and the general 2000 tsunami.
  
  This is on the downslope right now, but it's not devoid of enjoyment. The primary fruit lasts for about a half hour, and what's there is of a mildly joyous plummy nature, but dissipates quickly and is replaced by cedar, tobacco, coffee and a slaty minerality. As the fruit fades, it gets more ponderous, so if I could offer any advice to anyone still holding, it would be drink it quick and cool and soon, which somehow sounds like what Hem would say about it, though I wasn't going for that.

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  2/14/2013 - mark_m_owen wrote: 88 Points

  This is very much ready for drinking.Rounded tannins which still provide a bit of grip, fruit still very evident but also leather, chocolate etc. Very balanced. Enjoyed a lot.

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