2005 Château Liversan

Community Tasting Notes (41) Avg Score: 85.4 points

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  11/5/2021 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Med+ garnet to a bricking rim, the bouquet is undergrowth, cedar with some cola notes, dried thyme, toasted rosemary and ripe black fruits.
  A firm lemon-edged acidity on entry, the wine is cool and chalky. Fresh blackcurrant to blackcurrant leaf, tilled soil, the wine is medium-bodied with a touch of spice.
  The wine feels burly yet lacks a bit of mid-palate depth, making the wine a little skeletal and without the fruit to flesh out the frame. A little underwhelming, the finish is medium with a tarry, herbal back-palate.
  Old school claret that feels a little lean especially given 2005 vintage.

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  7/16/2020 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Classic Bordeaux bouquet with cedar chest, pencil shavings, blackcurrant, a splash of wild herb, dried thyme.
  Palate is more austere than expected with puckering tannins and a tar-like texture - almost Barolo-like- with fresh lemon acidity and old-school claret flavours: leather polish, earth, herbal. It feels a little upright and leaner than I expected for 2005. Would have liked more flesh to coat the bones. Perhaps drying out? not as good as the previous bottle from 2018.

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  3/29/2018 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Mid garnet to brick red. Aromas of earth, savoury notes, forest fruits, oak spices. Fairly full-bodied with grippy texture and firm, sturdy tannins. Fresh lemon acidity, long finish with flavours of dark chocolate (70%), blackcurrant and fresh spices. A fairly serious wine with decent concentration and high tannin quality of 2005 vintage. Just enough fruit to work with the structure. Perhaps could resolve further?

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  6/5/2013 - johneagle Does not like this wine: 80 Points

  Considerably better than every previous bottle of this, thought that's not saying much. The 01 was good and I bought this expecting something better, given the vintage. This was the last bottle and was almost tolerable, though far from exciting. Some sourish dark berry fruit and the tannins just beginning to soften a little, though not integrated together. Judgement raised from mediocre to very ordinary.

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  7/25/2012 - psi wrote: 84 Points

  Lacking fruit. Drink up

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