2006 Lambert Bridge Merlot

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  3/22/2017 - mflesh wrote: 90 Points

  Dare say this was way better than the last bottle I had about 2 or 3 years ago. This was kind of a forgotten gem in the cellar that I found last Friday. A little vegetal from cork pop had me worried but this wine blew off in 20 minutes and showed great terroir and classic aged foresty black notes that eventually emerged. Lots of body was here and very ample fruit. Finish showed completely resolute tannin. Very silky finish. Great with olive and mushroom marinara. Probably slightly in decline at this point, but it really did become quite a bit more youthful as it sat and opened. It's quite a delight tonight at 10 years old, but the drink date ending in 2015 is very incorrect and should probably be to 2019.

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  10/2/2014 - Clan McLeod wrote: flawed

  Corked.

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  1/19/2013 - mflesh wrote: 90 Points

  Enjoyed last night with dinner. I can see why I acquired this bottle - it is Merlot, but just about as soft as it gets. For those who like the Merlot that feels like you're drinking the soil, sticks, ground up leaves, etc. this is NOT a Merlot for you. If anything, cellaring for almost a year after purchase might have enhanced these brambly aspects. I do think it has improved a tiny bit. The wine was withdrawn intact with a light purple stain. The wine was decanted about an hour before dinner. Poured into glass with a lighter color and coat than I thought. The wine had a nose of dark berry - not really a blackberry but more of a thorny black fruit like a boysenberry, forest, some age, but was definitely a harsh aromatic. On the palate was the softer side of a medium bodied Merlot. Low acidity, rounded edges were still rather round, with lots of dark fruit, a hint of forest, and some chocolate dancing in and out. The wine trended to a slight sweetness in the back (not mocha, not vanilla - more of a ginger snap kind of sweet) before these rounded characteristics left the building in a hurry, favoring forest floor, sticks, rhubarb! Finished with low tannin. Not much oak or cedar here. I can't really say that I know what to make of this one's future aging potential, but I don't think it's really going to last more than another 3 years, maybe 5-7 if aged absolutely perfect.

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  1/6/2013 - Cantina Hill's Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Opened up quickly, 30 minutes, no decanting, dark fruit still alive, blackberries, no dried fruit or plum cedar, mild oak, tannins less than expected, mellowed and smooth, hint of leather,

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  5/16/2012 - mflesh wrote: 89 Points

  Tasted at the Lambert Bridge taster at Zambrano Wine Cellar in downtown Fort Worth. I will say that I believe that this is a classic merlot done in a very classic style. It just wasn't very typical of the full bodied, dense merlot. The nose was all plum, dark fruit, black cherry, some chocolate, and even a hint of a floral and almost rose petal characteristic. The wine itself was chocolate and plum up front, with a hint of blackberry, mild forest floor. Tannin started to creep in but didn't fully express until the finish where the wine turned very spicy and heady. The finish on this wine was quite long for something that wasn't really all that full bodied. I would love to decant this wine over an hour or two and see how this helped things. I bet it would be closer to a 91 or 92 if decanted, and we purchased one bottle to do just that. I think this wine is good to go now, and I don't recommend holding this one back.

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