2013 Chateau Musar

Community Tasting Notes (64) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  3/8/2024 - kfrench150 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Under natural cork. Decanted for 2 hours to start. Deep, full ruby colour with some bricking at the rim. Super funky nose with lots of apparent brett! Sweaty saddle, sweet, ripe red fruits, green tobacco, VA, cherry syrup and even more earthy funk beneath all that. Not for the faint of heart! Full bodied, sweet funky fruit extract, high fine tannins, highish alcohol, mix of acids (regulat and VA) and a long finish. Less funky and more fruity on the palate than would be expected from the nose. Lots of sweet res fruits, highly extracted and wirh lots of skin contact, sweaty saddle leather, strong black tea and cedar bark. Finishes long and feeling dry, but I think it is the high tannins overloading the sweet fruit. Surely won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I've always loved Musar and don't mind the brett and VA, but admit this one is a bit over the top in that department. Tough call, but I'm only going 90 on this one.

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  2/27/2024 - AndrewSGHall wrote: flawed

  I suspect that my Musar suplly.chain is compromised. I gave the bottle a bit ago a pass but this was so clearly oxidized and stewed that I now think the prior bottle was affected as well

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  2/6/2024 - AndrewSGHall wrote:

  It's not you, it's me.
  
  Seema like Musar on point but I suspect I just don't like the volatile elements and what comes off to me as aged before it hit the bottle elements anymore.

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  12/9/2023 - stopher Likes this wine: 93 Points

  with lamb shank and mushroom risotto
  
  Dusty and tanic on after an hour decant. I can see how this could go for another 10 years. Very nice

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  9/2/2023 - R Z Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Captivating, engaging, elegant Lebanese wine, a blend of cabernet sauvignon, cinsault and carignan by the late great Serge Hochar (whom I was fortunate to meet guiding us through a tasting of his wines in NYC more than twenty years ago). Lighter body, gorgeous magenta/blue violet color. Enjoyed throughout the meal with eggplant appetizers, falafel and lamb shank at Tanoreen restaurant in Bay Ridge.

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