2020 Château Talbot

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  3/10/2024 - DevenStephens Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Fantastic! The second I opened it I got a whiff of cassis and cigar box. I decanted for 2 hours and then we drank it over 4 more. Dark purple. Nose of cassis, menthol and tobacco. Some more black fruits as well. On the palate this is beautiful! Cassis, plum, blackberries, tobacco leaf, leather, menthol, toast, vanilla. The oak is there but not covering up the fruit, just accentuating it as it should. Tannins are grainy at first and at the end it was very smooth. The finish was medium to long. Even at the end of the bottle the wine was still changing in the glass. Very well done, great wine with many more years of life to it (10-15+). Glad to have tried one now.

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  2/29/2024 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points

  Talbot has been on a roll under the aegis of Jean-Michel Laporte. The promise the 2020 Talbot showed at the UGC tasting is vindicated with this in-bottle tasting with a big, blackberry and cassis nose, accompanied by a little chestnut and unsmoked cigar, very broad-shouldered in 2020 style. Yet it’s freshened by pencil and a salty marine element, nori-like. For all its juiciness, there’s tremendously zippy acid and the tannin is pretty sophisticated already. This finishes well and I suspect only a few more years will be required to integrate its oak. The drinking window should be very, very long indeed - while perfectly enjoyable off of a steakhouse list today (actually a bit closed 12 hours later), I expect this to age effortlessly for at least 60 years… Probably longer. 92-94

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  2/3/2024 - BottleScholar Likes this wine:

  Excellent balance, extraction, tannin, and integration of oak. Ripe black fruit with a restrained smoothed texture. Black cherry, black plum, fully-ripe juicy blackberry, cigar box, baking spice, licorice root, cumin, clove, vanilla, and toast. Plush, ripe, polished M+ tannins. M+ acidity. M+ finish. Deep inky ruby color. Outstanding. Suitable for aging.

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  1/28/2024 - Henry Miller Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Arguably the best Talbot since the 1947...

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  1/14/2024 - Madera16 wrote:

  UGC - did not like. Slightly smoky.

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