1961 Clos La Coutale Cahors

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92 points

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  3/27/2024 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 92 Points

  First bottle tasted after recorking.
  Best showing yet.
  Very nice nose, showing tertiary notes but nothing alarming at all.
  The dominant aromas are of an earthy and a spicy character with just a little plum and cherry in the background.
  Not a very deep hue and showing a little amber along rim but totally appropriate for a 63 year old wine.
  The texture is quite nice: still a noticeable tannic backbone but sufficient texture to keep it relatively smooth. Very much an "old style" type of wine with plenty of extraction and no fear of producing a wine needing some time in the cellar.
  Long, lingering finish on the iron/spicy side.
  I plan to drink the remaining bottles over the next 10 years.

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  7/5/2021 - vagrantone wrote: flawed

  Corked this time. Not enjoyable.

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  6/15/2021 - vagrantone Likes this wine: 92 Points

  First of 10 bottles.
  The wine is labeled "Los Coutalos" Vieux Cahors with the same graphics.
  This was back when Cahors was still a VDQS.
  Mid-neck fill, cork holding up but breaking without my Durant.
  Not decanted as I try to assess the state of this wine.
  In retrospect, this wine does not need decanting.
  It showed beautifully upon opening, but needs drinking within 2-3 hours after opening.
  Clearly on the tertiary side but still some fruit remnant. Excellent complexity, balance and length. A lighter wine in terms of structure, not a "Vin Noir" in any meaningful wine. Perhaps made from young vines after the re-planting following the freeze of 1956
  Purchased at $ 14/bottle at auction...

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