Small Claret Dinner (SW11): Nose starts with red fruits, hints of smoke, some resting steak / meat juices. With air lovely hints of pungent summer greenhouse tomato leaves. Palate is youthful, tannins 95% resolved but not fully there. Some cedar too and with air some fully ripe plum fruit and a little cinnamon syrup. Great stuff.
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This particular bottle is on the decline and is starting to fade. Very different tasting experience vs when I had it back in November 2022. My bet is this bottle wasn’t stored in ideal conditions over the past 20+ years.
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From 75cl, exquisite cork, decanted 1 hour. Plush, refined, pure, compact Pauillac. Scent comme il faut; ripe, dark-fruited entry, more loganberry than cassis, but none the worse for that; velvety-smooth mid-palate. Early maturity, bottles in good condition have a long, long way to go. 91–92P
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5/8/2024 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 92 Points
Small Claret Dinner (SW11): Nose starts with red fruits, hints of smoke, some resting steak / meat juices. With air lovely hints of pungent summer greenhouse tomato leaves. Palate is youthful, tannins 95% resolved but not fully there. Some cedar too and with air some fully ripe plum fruit and a little cinnamon syrup. Great stuff.
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4/27/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 86 Points
This particular bottle is on the decline and is starting to fade. Very different tasting experience vs when I had it back in November 2022. My bet is this bottle wasn’t stored in ideal conditions over the past 20+ years.
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3/23/2024 - honest bob wrote: 92 Points
From 75cl, exquisite cork, decanted 1 hour. Plush, refined, pure, compact Pauillac. Scent comme il faut; ripe, dark-fruited entry, more loganberry than cassis, but none the worse for that; velvety-smooth mid-palate. Early maturity, bottles in good condition have a long, long way to go. 91–92P
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2/6/2024 - Odedis.Wine.reviews Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pretty color of ruby with a wide reddish rim.
Medium plus in body with medium plus acidity.
Dry on the palate with nice complexity and mouthfeel.
Showing black currants, cooked cherries, tobacco leaf, herbs, vegetables, light wood, licorice, coffee, light cola, vegetables and black pepper.
Long finish with fine grained tannins and tangy raspberries.
This beautiful 24-year-old Bordeaux from the great 2000 vintage seems still young, although decanted for 4 hours.
Elegant and powerful. Rich, yet subdued. I loved the nose, that showed lots of wild flowers.
Wine Spectator 91 points. Robert Parker 92 points.
This Fifth growth is nicely balanced with nice complexity at this point. Still needs a few more years in the bottle to mature properly.
I've had many vintages of this wine, and so far the 2009 was my favorite.
Good by itself and better with food. Paired nicely with dried meats and cheeses.
12.5% alcohol by volume.
92 points.
$150.
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11/25/2023 - Teamcrev wrote: 92 Points
Beautiful mature 2000. Needed about 30 minutes to open up, especially one of the bottles where the cork was dry. Did not decant.
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