1983 Château Raymond-Lafon

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 91.1 points

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  12/9/2022 - Condrieu82 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Slow ox’ed for 2 hours. Color is typical dark Souternes. Nose shows caramel, toffee, very intense. Medium acidity, minerally, the palate shows mouth coating butterscotch notes, spice, orange peel - this is very intense and concentrated. The ending is medium long and lush - with more dried fruit notes that give it further body. Very good overall and incredibly thight still - I would wait a few more years to fully enjoy it.

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  12/17/2021 - OenophilistMN Likes this wine: 82 Points

  Second disappointing wine of the night. In the fridge for 2 days, opened and on ice for two hours then warmed for 30 minutes before serving. Golden honey color; no tartrate crystals. Upon pouring, a strong petrol aroma was obvious so we decanted it through an aerating funnel. While that helped, it did not resolve the problem. In the mouth: wonderful weight, balance and deep sweetness was there but the petrol remained, both on the nose and in the wine. With a wedge of blue cheese and some roasted almonds for dessert, the wine was enjoyable; but just so. Rarely does my cellar cough up two furballs for the same event, but it happened tonight.

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  9/12/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 Points

  Orange, copper in color the wine merges sweet, honeyed tropical fruits with creme brulee, custard, butterscotch, and caramel. On the border between sweet and racy, with the acidity starting to edge the fruit out, this is probably slightly past its peak drinking window. Still, it was easy to finish the glass for all its honeyed, orange tropical fruits and caramel. If you are sitting on any, do not hesitate to drink this now before more of the sweet fruit slowly fades.

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  6/7/2019 - liber wrote: 92 Points

  Happy find in corner of cellar from way back - bright gold, not too dark given age or unctuous; apricots, peaches and marmalade, volatile component; medium/full, long, complex, VA a problem, making flavours not quite in balance and with annoying prickle on tongue, entirely clean bottles would merit better than F (17.5)…….I recall similar problem in other bottles which is a great shame in this top vintage, and way off the pace and grace of the 80, a much less celebrated vintage!

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  5/1/2019 - rmalloy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Delicious. Pureed apricots and orange marmalade with ginger accents. Still good energy; doesn't taste old. No rush to drink this.

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