2004 Château Cantelys

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  2/2/2011 - pdwinter Likes this wine: 88 Points

  earthy, vegetal aroma, medium body with wooden tones, nicely integrated tanins in finish (tasted at retailer)

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  7/19/2010 - z_willus_d wrote: 90 Points

  Cork bottom was soaked and one side showed wine seepage half-way up. 2hr decant @70F. COLOR- dark and dirty burgundy with a hint of browning. NOSE- salty caramel or peanut butter toffee, coffee grinds in vermiculture, melted down black liquorish, cedar and backyard dirt on a summer evening (w/ creosote from the grill). PALATE- very smooth, perhaps abutting elegant, yet seeming dull on the fore-palate; grows more grabbing if you let it touch the cheeks. There's a very good spine of acid that picks up along with the flavor on the medium+ length, elegant finish. This wine has such an interesting flavor profile with its tar and liquorish and earth and bloody meats and best of all coffee/toffee cream -- it makes one want to gulp down more to pick-up the flavors. If I had to rate this wine in order of what I like about it best to least, the roll would read: Nose, finish, balance, flavor profile, complexity, mouthfeel, drinkability (a Bordeaux thing), [switching over to the less positive] entry presence, concentration, tannins and structure for long term aging. So, while those last three points keep my score tamped some, I can't get away from how completely great this wine is in all those other ways I've listed. Thanks Rob for the recommendation.

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  11/24/2009 - tourette wrote: 89 Points

  Really quite delicious. Singing now, though it has some potential to get better. Nice after an hour decant. Went great with pasta and marinara. I really enjoyed the mouthfeel and finish, but it may have been a tad too fruit forward for my liking. Nicely made, and great QPR.

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  9/23/2009 - Rob MacKay wrote: 90 Points

  This was delicious tonight. We last had this wine about a year ago and while it has changed little in that time (great then, great now), there was one this that did change and that was the price. It's now $3 cheaper making it probably the best $19 Bordeaux you will ever taste if you can get your hands on it. Good luck getting it from 'my' store though because I am going to go buy the rest of them. :)

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  2/7/2009 - dke wrote: 89 Points

  Initially some meaty plummy nose, but this turned into more green peppers and into shoe polish, leather, tobacco and white peppercorns. Nice medium body, with some tar, dark fruits earth and wood, much better after 1-2 hours of decanting. Medium length cedar finish with moderate tannins. juicy with nice acidity. this is good and quite similar to 2001 (but slightly less interesting). It did not change much on the second night, similar profile, slightly fuller and perhaps slightly less complex. This might improve with a year or two more in the cellar 88-89pts.

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