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Wine Definition
- Vintage2010
- TypeRed
- ProducerVieux Château Champs de Mars
- VarietyRed Bordeaux Blend
- DesignationStacie
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- SubRegionLibournais
- AppellationCastillon Côtes de Bordeaux
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3/9/2024 - Mandamus Likes this wine:
Again tasting from the same bottle, opened this past Tuesday. Now, four days later, it is noticeably worse. (This bottle from this past Tuesday afternoon, with around half left; was re-corked since initial consumption, having been open but left still save a few small pours, for around 3 hours; it was kept mostly in a 4 °C fridge; kept sealed, but no preservative gas ever used.)
Again, still opens up a bit more over time, with exposure to oxygen and warming back up to room temperature (in the same medium unstemmed glass as last tasting).
Quite muted and a touch bitter, in early tasting. Once it was swirled more, up to around 20 °C, and rested for another ~ 45 min, it started to develop more similar notes to prior tastings. Still not quite as good, but it seems to have still withstood this treatment okay. Finished what was left (a total of around another 2 glasses; second small glass portion taken after, from bottle having again been re-sealed and refrigerated). Upon finishing bottle, some light clumped sediment was present, but not too much.
I think tasting this 4 days out now and still improving in the glass indicates this wine still does actually have quite a bit of life left in it. Would be interesting to taste a new bottle in another few years.
Decided to also try the Tasting Note Assistant here (likely similar to other tastings, just a bit more muted):
The wine looks crimson colored. The legs are fast. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry, red currant, raisin, gooseberry, raspberry, black currant (cassis), blueberry, oak, vanilla, clove, game, botrytised, barnyard, brettanomyces and fig. It tastes like blackberry, red currant, black currant (cassis), fig, oak, stoniness, brettanomyces and barnyard. The body is medium. The wine has smooth (or juicy) texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity.
90 points. (Not formally rated, to prevent multiple reviews from overly influencing the score of this uncommon bottle.)
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3/7/2024 - Mandamus Likes this wine:
Similar to before. (This bottle from this past Tuesday afternoon, with around half left; was re-corked since initial consumption, having been open but left still save a few small pours, for around 3 hours; kept mostly in a 4 °C fridge; kept sealed, but no preservative gas ever used.)
Again, opens up much more over time, with exposure to oxygen. Oddly, however, a quite muted and a bit bitter, right after tasting, after letting come up to around 15 °C, in a small glass, rested for 10 min thereafter and without any swirling. Once it was swirled more, up to around 20 °C, and rested for another ~ 30 min, it started to develop more similar notes to prior tastings. Still not quite as good, but it seems to have withstood this treatment okay so far.
This might suggest that this wine still has some time left, but perhaps not that much? Otherwise I would have said it still had a fair amount of life left, since some primary notes remain, though tertiary notes have developed a fair amount too.
92 points. (Not formally rated, to prevent multiple reviews from overly influencing the score of this uncommon bottle.)
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3/5/2024 - Mandamus Likes this wine:
Same notes as before (though a new bottle, from the same restaurant).
Again, opens up much more over time, with exposure to oxygen. The low–moderate tannins fade considerably after sitting or swirling (for 15–30 min).
From a newly opened bottled, with no faults. Poured normally in a medium-sized glass. Paired well with various food. (With good company.)
93 points. (Not formally rated, to prevent multiple reviews from overly influencing the score of this uncommon bottle.)
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2/17/2024 - Mandamus Likes this wine: 93 Points
An excellent and interesting Bordeaux. It had complex notes of primary fruits (cherry, black fruits, dried fruit) transitioning into tertiary notes (pleasant barnyard, various oak, with complex spices, and some additional hard to discern flavour).
The harder to discern notes might be related to my detected Brett (barnyard) note. Personally, I think that this works nicely in this wine. Not surprising, given that the back Producer's note emphasizes minimal intervention, including native yeast cultures and no added sulphur.
The fruits became noticeably more prominent, over time, with further oxidation. Medium acid and low–medium tannin, with medium–plus body and complexity. Medium length, with quite a nice finish.
From a newly opened bottled, with no faults. Poured in two small pours in a medium-sized glass, to aerate further, over about 2 hours. Paired well with steak. (With good company.)
Exceptional value.
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