1999 Château Magdelaine

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  8/6/2022 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 89 Points

  I'm noticing some bottle variation on these, as my last bottle was quite better than this one. This was muted and slightly funky. The funk dissipated but it never opened up. It may be a little late in the curve for these but let's see how my last bottle performs later in the year.

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  1/1/2022 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Magdelaine vertical: Weakest of the line-up today. The typical elegance of Magdelaine but dilute on the palate and a weak finish.

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  3/28/2020 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Medium ruby in color. Hard to notice any aging visually. Ripe red fruits, blackcurrant, wet stones and soil. Dry on the palate, medium acidity, medium tannins with a smooth mouthfeel, well integrated oak. Medium, graceful finish. No decanting was needed, very little sediment was visible. Drink within three years. It's at peak of maturity and drinking beautifully.

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  9/30/2019 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:

  medium deep red color with bricking starting to show at the rim, pepper and mulberries on the nose, darkest cherry notes, secondary bramble notes that remain somewhat hard, on the palate a very pretty cassis and mulberry fruit with forest notes, mid-weight with slightly hard edges, with time it develops intense spice notes, this has a great vivacity to it akin to the 2001 and 2011 but with that liveliness more driven by the pepper notes, bright acids, despite the secondary development this still has a good bit of youthful tannin, a very pretty if slightly hard Magdelaine that is drinking well now but I suspect may go out of balance to some degree in 15-20 years time, worth holding a couple long term to see what happens but also the youngest Magdelaine vintage out there which I think is currently fully ready to enjoy now and showing all it has to offer.
  
  ***, now to 2035.

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  4/28/2019 - OenoEd wrote: 92 Points

  Good color, a bouquet of warm herbs and muted dark fruit... this is old school St Emilion, elegant and long, tannic richness without harshness. Well balanced, and likely to improve over next ten years. It seems in an in between stage at the moment, fairly austere, needs secondary qualities to push through.

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