1998 Château Berliquet

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 88.8 points

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  12/18/2022 - Cailles wrote: 86 Points

  16x Right Bank Bordeaux 1998: Almost 25 years later, it’s a great time to check in on the wines of the much lauded right bank vintage. All wines tasted single blind. A few observations: A) most wines showed quite open with a melted tannin structure, but still good tension across the board. B) The highlight was rather on the structural side (elegance and finesse in most wines), than on the aromatic depth side, which was limited, also due to… C) …the fact that there is limited tertiary expression yet. Most wines will need at least another 5 to rather 10 years to reach their peak. D) An average rating of 91.9pts in my book and 92.0pts for the group shows that despite a few highlights, the reception was mixed overall. E) Best wines today were Angelus (group average 94.9pts), Valandraud (94.4) and Cheval Blanc (94.0). I would put L’Evangile (rated 95pts) in the top category too but the group (average 92.6) was less enthusiastic.
  
  TN: Fresh and minerality driven nose with alcohol showing. On the palate this shows brighter red berries, some darker berries, herbs and minerality but there is also alcohol showing and it is a bit green and drying. The attack is the highlight here and deserves some praise but the wine is thinning out a bit from the mid palate on and is slightly drying towards the finish.
  
  Decanting: Decanted for 2-3 hours which seemed ok.
  
  Group score: 90.1
  Group rank: 13th out of 16 reds

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  11/26/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 91 Points

  Bordeaux Right Bank 1998 tasting (Essenz (Brugg)): Bordeaux right bank 1998 tasting. All wines were served single blind and were decanted several hours. The sample showed i/ generally healthy and structured wines, still quite primary with further aging potential; ii/ the overall performance was below expectations considering the repute of the vintage for the right bank (although this may be due to the very long aeration), iii/ top wine for me were 1. Valandrau (95), 2. L’Evangile (95), 3. Angélus (94) while for the group the ranking was 1. Angélus (94.9), 2. Valandrau (94.4), 3. Cheval Blanc (94.0). Complete list including group scores included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  Limited expression and rather low intensity. A red berry type of fruit, but with a slightly unripe feel to it which was further amplified by a green sting from the herbal notes. Nicely round palate, but fails to excite.

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  11/26/2022 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 90 Points

  1998 Horizontal Bordeaux Right Bank Tasting (private) (Essen'z): All wines were tasted single blind and were decanted before tasting. 14 right bank bordeaux and 2 pirates. All wines were from the vintage 1998.
  
  General observations:
  Unfortunately, the tasting was below my expectations. The was no real "wow-effect" at any wines as I had with the left bank tasting 1982-1990 we had a year ago. So I had to find out, that, me, personally, I like more the aged left than the aged right banks. In the end, Ridge Montebello (pirate) ended even up being the wine of the night for me.
  
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  TN:
  on the bouquet fresh, red fruited, but it seemed rather closed to me
  
  on the palate tannins rather drying, little off balance as well, not much fruit left, length medium+ because of the tannins which stay long, over all not exiting but good quality

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  12/18/2021 - liber Likes this wine: 90 Points

  11th of 12, pnp, perfect cork and level, previous bottles good plus or better last in 2013 very good plus (ie 89), still holding up surprisingly well, and showing more nuance to the rather simple but attractive plummy fruit, generosity of a top vintage, no upside but no rush. VGI (17).

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  6/28/2020 - Dancing with bottles Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Finally a decent bottle. Classic St Emilion-scent and flavour, nice balance and finish. Neither impressive nor bad, just okay from a current perspective.

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