1993 Louis Jadot Bonnes Mares

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 92 points

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  7/18/2021 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Summer Dinner (Los Gatos, California): Fading red. Strong wintergreen. Medium weight but still fairly meaty. Strong backbone of acidity and mixed black and red fruit with a backing of soil and sappiness. Excellent maturing Grand Cru perhaps lacking an element of excitement. It's funny that we only drank this since it was rejected for auction due to a slightly depressed cork--glad things worked out the way they did!

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  10/5/2018 - SommStags wrote:

  Bottle and cork were in bad shape but luckily I caught it and opened it up immediately. My other bottles didn’t have this problem so I think it was a one off probably caused from shipping.
  
  Anyways, wine was solid and I thought it was drinking very well. Wine held up through the night, though I think I preferred the wine during the first 1-2 hours. Not a bad purchase and once again the 93’s over deliver. Based on my suspect bottle, see the wine holding and then gradually declining in 5-7 years.

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  7/8/2018 - theharve wrote: 92 Points

  still alive and kicking

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  9/30/2017 - jsebiri wrote:

  Nose , very mature , secondary , very rich aroma . A little metallic nose as well . Some pinot going on , but very small amount . This wine is probably about 3/4's down the other side of the hill .

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  9/9/2017 - fclarity wrote: 92 Points

  I own a fair amount of Jadot and the bottles have experienced pretty much perfect storage. Thus, when I saw that a few bottles of the same wine leaked, and others did not, I suspected Brett. The deep red/purple center and red/orange rims did not indicate undue aging. The nose showed prunes, cherries, souls bois, and black spices. There was also a touch of Brett but it was well in the background.
  
  In the mouth, this wine showed good ripeness with substantial rounded tannin, and excellent length. It had that firmness and power that is typical of 1993 Burgs.
  
  This was a bit of an odd wine in the the flavors were somewhat advanced but the structure and power still seemed young. I am not sure if the Brett element was a factor or not. However, the aforementioned odd combination did not seem like a recipe for future improvement. While this will easily last a decade, I would recommend looking for reasons to drink this wine (only one data point).

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