1994 Château Magdelaine

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 88 points

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  2/14/2024 - geraldsng Likes this wine:

  This Magdelaine was unsurprisingly fully tertiary. Coming from a restrained vintage and a restrained style it didn’t give up very much. Smooth and silky on the palate though. Otherwise it has joined the pantheon of once-individual wines that have ascended into the tertiary apotheosis of forest floor, earth and tobacco.

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  1/1/2022 - melvinyeowq Likes this wine:

  Magdelaine vertical: Ticked all the boxes for a lovely aged claret. Magdelaine can surprise in off-vintages, and this reminded me of a lovely 97 that I had previously. Classic leather and some iron on the nose, on the palate everything was integrated seamlessly. I think we caught it at its absolute peak.

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  5/2/2019 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:

  [from a case recently released by Moueix and direct from chateau stocks]
  
  deepish purple color, menthol and bramble on the nose, dark fruits in the background, some hard forest notes on the palate which has a certain hardness that is not as unpleasant as it is on many 94s but is rather more like 84 in being a pure force of structure without such a presence of harsh tannins or acids, large scale structure with light fruit, lot of forest and bramble with time, as with the 84 vintage at the higher end- I think this is a wine to bury in the cellar for a very long time to allow some settling and fading of the structure at which point the fruit and other elements will have become nicely savory in their tertiary stage, no guarantees there- but this is the best balanced 94 I have had and as with wines like 84 Mouton and the 94 DRCs I think it will be most useful with extensive age- served with a strong cheese course or as an after-dinner drink.
  
  **, 2034+

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  12/26/2018 - jcharmange wrote: 82 Points

  Can wait a bit more

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  3/1/2015 - ricknat1 wrote: flawed

  corked

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