2018 Château de Macard Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 88 points

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  12/26/2022 - oakville72 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Really, a very fine little Bordeaux drinking well now. The Cabernet Franc is front and center. Upgraded my earlier 89 score to 90.
  
  (5/18/2022) A very accessible Bordeaux Supérieur with good color, pleasing aromatics of fruit and oak, and well-balanced flavors. Back label indicates 60% cabernet franc from 100-year-old vines, 30% merlot, 10% cabernet sauvignon. Very hard to find any measure of cabernet franc in Bordeaux wines these days — a tragedy!

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  10/31/2022 - stamperb wrote: 85 Points

  Nose: Some cassis and mild oak influence. Palate: a bit thin; overall, it has the taste of an affordable merlot-dominant Bordeaux blend. When I bought this from WTSO, I was hoping for more of the cabernet franc influence (60%), but it ended up tasting like many of the other affordable and adequate, yet uninspiring right bank-like blends (i.e., Grands Vins de Bordeaux box sets from Costco).

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  1/15/2022 - WY Leonidas Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Clear garnet. Nice aromatics - raspberry, red cherry, graphite, and leather and spice. Medium body, with some cocoa finish. Decent fruit, but lots of leather and spice in the mouth. Well balanced, with moderately high acid. Moderate finish. This is enjoyable now but I think needs some time for the bracing acidity to meld and mellow. Good! Elegant.

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