1975 Château Magdelaine

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  10/26/2023 - Seth Rosenberg wrote: 88 Points

  Tasted double blind from a small capped bottle as part of a zoom tasting. Mature and nutty. Very coarse on the nose - wood and disjointed. A bit of varnish. More marzipan. More nuttiness. Big and volatile. spicy and woody. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 4/6, Finish - 4/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 14/20.

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  9/12/2023 - palfr2 wrote:

  At Tan Dinh, Paris - proposed by owner Roger Vifian to substitute a Latour a Pomerol of the same vintage which could not be located in the cellar. Wet cork fell into the bottle but first smell confirmed wine was otherwise sound. Expressive telltale nose of older right Bank leaning Pomerol with truffle and mushroom. Classic St Emilion scent of wild berries, bramble and undergrowth in the background. The palate cannot quite live up to the nose but is still holding up well with a nice acid zing. This is a wine in its twilight in 75cl format and with less life ahead than the '70 and '82.

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  8/29/2023 - Guillaume-en-égypte Likes this wine: 94 Points

  From a bottle with in near perfect condition with fill to the base of the neck & no cork issues. (Note from memory, from a few days ago) Considerable depth of garnet colour, more ruby than tawny. Aromas: a persisting impression of red and black berry fruit, cooked red plum, leather bound old books, cured tobacco, hung game, truffle, forest floor, honeycomb. On the pallet this was evidently still in fine fettle and came across as if anything younger than the aromas suggested, with plenty of fruit in a lovely balance with the more meaty, savoury aged notes. Great mouthfeel, with velvet like resolved tannins, remarkably refreshing acidity, and a long finish full of interest and nuance. . My drinking companion commented that it reminded her of a mature, but much younger grand Burgundy, along with a 'Who needs DRC'. A great, hugely enjoyable and completely satisfying bottle with years left to go !

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  4/14/2023 - acyso wrote: flawed

  St. Emilion night (Chicago, IL): Corked.

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  8/25/2022 - JustBreathe680 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This wine is a birth year vintage and was served at a wine dinner with family the night prior to my birthday. The wine had excellent provenance and was sourced on the secondary market from Lopa. The fill was very top shoulder.
  
  The wine was stored in my Le Cache and was moved from horizontal racking to a display cradle 5 days prior to opening. On day 5 the bottle was removed from the Le Cache and placed into a wine cradle. The foil was removed and there were no visible signs of wine seepage based on the presence of the foil or the exterior of the bottle. The cork was extracted using a Durand. However, the cork was hard with what appeared to be slightly dried wine on the outside that was visible prior to pulling the cork. Inside the bottle, the cork was wine soaked and soft. The cork broke on extraction, leaving approximately 1/4 of the bottom in the bottle. I was able to successfully remove the remaining cork with the Durand and it helped that the wine was in the cradle, as I was able to see the remaining cork that stayed in the middle neck of the bottle. Based on the condition of the cork, I thought the bottle was going to be flawed but I was very pleasantly surprised at how well this wine showed on this night!
  
  The wine was Double Decanted (DD) and immediately returned into a previously cleaned wine bottle with a fresh cork returned to the bottle. It was transported to a restaurant where it remained under cork for the next 90 minutes until it was paired with Cheese: Goat/ Old Chatam Creamery Cheve Cow/Grass Fed Camembert Sheep/Caved Aged Blue Cheese, Fruit, Preservers, and Crackers. The wine was consumed out of a Grassl Liberte stem.
  
  The wine color was burgundy with slight bricking at the edges. It had a beautiful bouquet of dried flowers, leather, salinity and brown spices. The palate was primarily secondary and tertiary flavors but there was surprisingly still some red and dark fruit tones present, specifically red and black cherries. The wine had good texture and was well integrated with slight tannins and a pleasant streak of acidity. The body was medium and the wine was fully mature.
  
  For a 47 year-old wine, this bottle exceeded my expectations and I'm glad I have a few more bottles to enjoy over the next handful of years!

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