Great Older Wines at the Place to Drink Great Older Wines (Tampa FL): Popped-and-poured. Classically Pauillac start with cigarbox and rich spice supporting fully mature black fruit. Surprisingly firm tannins when first served, which quickly softened, but so did everything else. Best at the 15-30 minute point in glass, then more acid than pleasure.
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Drank at 67 First of all the label. Neither a Baron or a Comtesse, somebody more knowledgeable than me said they sometimes blended together when short of barrels in the old days or an English Importer got it wrong again. A thrill to try such an old beauty. Wonderful nose of leather and spice that fades quickly with a mature light palate.
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This was a fresh bottle but with quite a bit of equine action. There's plenty of leather and some earth and spice. It tastes of sweet cedar and chocolate and some volatility gives the wine lift.
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It was an unbelievable thrill to taste this bottle as it approached its 80th birthday! From a bottle stored at the chateau its entire life, the wine started out great, with a nose of cigar box, tobacco, earth, spice, forest floor, smoke and hints of berries. Tea and light ruby in color, with a medium body, the first 10 minutes were filled with sweet red berries and cassis. However, the wine soon began to fade in the glass. Regardless of the score, this was an honor to taste that created a 100 Pt memory, and isn't that what all the best bottles are really for?
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6/22/2019 - G_H wrote: 92 Points
Richter Raritäten Vol.VII (Magnums only) (Farnsburg): Clear deep red-brown. Strawberries, figs, slight sweetness, good bitterness and acidity.
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9/17/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Great Older Wines at the Place to Drink Great Older Wines (Tampa FL): Popped-and-poured. Classically Pauillac start with cigarbox and rich spice supporting fully mature black fruit. Surprisingly firm tannins when first served, which quickly softened, but so did everything else. Best at the 15-30 minute point in glass, then more acid than pleasure.
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7/4/2018 - RayOB wrote: 88 Points
Drank at 67
First of all the label. Neither a Baron or a Comtesse, somebody more knowledgeable than me said they sometimes blended together when short of barrels in the old days or an English Importer got it wrong again. A thrill to try such an old beauty. Wonderful nose of leather and spice that fades quickly with a mature light palate.
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8/31/2015 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
This was a fresh bottle but with quite a bit of equine action. There's plenty of leather and some earth and spice. It tastes of sweet cedar and chocolate and some volatility gives the wine lift.
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7/8/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 84 Points
It was an unbelievable thrill to taste this bottle as it approached its 80th birthday! From a bottle stored at the chateau its entire life, the wine started out great, with a nose of cigar box, tobacco, earth, spice, forest floor, smoke and hints of berries. Tea and light ruby in color, with a medium body, the first 10 minutes were filled with sweet red berries and cassis. However, the wine soon began to fade in the glass. Regardless of the score, this was an honor to taste that created a 100 Pt memory, and isn't that what all the best bottles are really for?
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