1986 Henri Bonneau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Réserve des Célestins

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  9/16/2018 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Vinetasters: Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Skokie, IL): Served double blind. A hint of coffee and brown spice, as well as a slight bit of mustiness on the nose here. Slight browning of the fruit here -- sweet, dried figs? The palate shows quite a bit of browned fruit as well. Clearly shows a bit of age, but there's good fruit concentration here. The fruit on the finish is a little bit browned, and some bitterness, but this is a low octane wine with good concentration. There's a slight raisined character to this, but it's not the modernist high-extract kind. Reminds a bit of an amarone but without the alcohol. My 4th, group's 5th.

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  1/18/2015 - sppro Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Elegant and powerful, metallic nose dissipated after 30 minutes, revealing notes of cassis and much fruit.

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  9/13/2014 - Sotto325 wrote: 93 Points

  A great wine that is way past its useful life but can, with a bottle like this, offer an exceptional experience: stewed, single focus fruit deliciously caries red cherry bark, thistles, dark cherry juice and wet wood into an unique,more Burgundian last gasp.

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  12/31/2013 - Lord Rayas wrote: 91 Points

  Juliano's NYE dinner (AMC): mature, sweet and rustic. a little metallic on the palate which I didn't enjoy.

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  12/24/2013 - Sotto325 wrote: 91 Points

  Third and last bottle. While it could be poor shipping or provenance, the decline from 2012 is quite significant. Alcohol led throughout, nice tawny color, a corps somewhat reminiscent of a Burgundy style CDP, with molten red wild fruit, significant tar and bramble flavors and a sherry like old age taste that is both refined and a sign of fading life-- like old Burgundy before it becomes liquid steel. Drink up.

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