2009 Saintayme

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.2 points

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  11/15/2020 - Slaithwaite Palace wrote: 91 Points

  In a very good place. I imagine if you opened this 5 years ago there would have been fiery alcohol dominating but now it feels a well-integrated wine but not old or tertiary in any sense. A cool minerality, stone and plum, would be my main take outs. Had I taste blind I would have guessed Pomerol. Excellent value for money.

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  5/17/2020 - pjjsmith Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark red with some brown tinges on edges. Teardrops noticeable on rim after swirling. Ground coffee, toffee and caramel notes on nose. Ripe plum on palette with caramel chocolate in middle finishing with liquorice. A very smooth wine that balances the acid and tannins for a nice finish. It definitely benefited from decanting before drinking and was still just as good 24 hours after opening. I enjoyed this wine both with and without food. Drinking well now.

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  7/27/2019 - korkd wrote: 91 Points

  Drinking well with little sign of age. Very balanced with a small amount of red and black fruit

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  1/19/2016 - dave747400 wrote: 89 Points

  Double decanted 2hrs, with lasagne. Room filling red fruit aromatics, dark & opaque on pouring. Extremely dense & towards the modern end of the St Emilion spectrum, seems almost viscous in the glass. Big fruit smothering the tannins & warm vintage low acidity detract slightly for my palate. Perhaps caught this wine in an awkward stage between adolescence & maturity.

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  6/1/2014 - slaughterer wrote: 90 Points

  Bottle #7 now. Recently finished the 2008, and had a 2009 quickly thereafter. The difference in style is pretty remarkable. The 2008 is a relatively simple taste of spicy plums and some soil. The 2009 is much more complex and hedonistic: clover, clay and smoke in the nose. Coffee, caramel, bitter chocolate, holunder, liquorice in the palate--like before. The 2008 is in the style of so many traditional Saint Eimilion GCs (Brun, etc.), but the 2009 is as flashy as a garage wine (Valandraud, etc.).

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