Tasted Thursday, October 18, 2012 by canan with 630 views
Nose: Intense blackberry/cherry, vanilla, liqueur.
Palate: Concentrated cherry and intense acidity, bitter on the mid-palate. Minerals, stalks.
Overall unbalanced.
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Nose: Delicious and harmonic. Blackberries and coffee.
Palate: Concentrated dark cherry/blackberry. Powerful heavy acidity and tannin structure.
A lovely wine with a solid potential.
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Nose: Blackberry pulp with a little vanilla.
Palate: Very primary, dark berries, super juicy and powerful structure. Lots of oak but evolves nicely in the glass.
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Nose: Sweet cherry jam, intense black pepper and lavender. Sexy nose.
Palate: Creamy and enticing, harsh tannins, black currant sweetness, huge tannins.
Perhaps a bit unstructured at the moment.
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Nose: A bit strange, dark plums, yoghurt, gunpowder, vomit, smoke.
Palate: Dark plums, yoghurt, black pepper. Massive structure.
A great wine!
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Nose: Black currants, liquorice, quite sweet, eucalyptus.
Palate: Sweet and lovely creamy plum fruit. Very sexy and lovely. Juicy and beautiful.
96-97p
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Nose: Quite restrained, sewer, green bell pepper, stalks.
Palate: Sweet and creamy plum fruit, medium acidity.
A little simple and boring but it does seem quite closed.
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Nose: Modern, sexy. Blackberry, coffee, vanilla, lots of chocolate, black pepper.
Palate: Deep and full-bodied. Delicious black currant fruit. Creamy and medium intense.
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Nose: Sewer, dark plum, spices.
Palate: Sexy and full-bodied plum fruit and a little vanilla. Great balance.
Evolves really nicely in the glass and puts on a lot of weight.
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Nose: Yellow apples, lots of yeast, toasted grains.
Palate: Full-bodied yellow apples, vanilla, solid acidity. Slightly short aftertaste. Oxidated. Figs.
A lovely bottle!
Disgorged 2010.
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Nose: Black currants, coffee, intense, lots of black pepper. Beautiful.
Palate: Intense black currant fruit, coffee, a wall of acidity.
A beautiful young wine.
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Nose: Sweet, complex, young cherry liqueur, marzipan.
Palate: Super juicy young plum fruit, tightly knit, crazy acidity, long impressive and spicy aftertaste.
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Nose: Glue, concentrated cherry fruit, dark plum, deep liqueur note but still in a good way. Black pepper and coffee. Complex nose!
Palate: Juicy young and very impressive young cherry fruit in a perfect balance. Slightly spicy. There is a little hint of liqueur which can turn out both good and bad.
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Nose: Sweet cherry sauce, lovely with plenty of flowers and a touch of green pepper. Sexy and spicy with a complex youthful expression.
Palate: Super sexy sweet cherry fruit with a little oak influence. Some dried spices and a very long impressive aftertaste.
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Nose: Creamy coconut and glue. Warm blackberry fruit. Powerful.
Palate: Extracted and concentrated dark plum fruit. Crazy powerful and intensity with a massive structure. Almost vulgar. Violent acidity.
Good? Definitely a special wine.
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Nose: Eucalyptus and lots of coffee. A little restrained but you can almost feel all the exciting things in the background.
Palate: Fresh acidic plum fruit and just a beautiful wine with a solid structure. Perfect balance. Some ink and shoe polish. An insane amount of tannins.
A truly extreme wine.
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Intense and full-bodied. Mature pineapple and apricots.
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2009 Château Haut-Bergey Blanc 92 Points
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
Nose: Intense gooseberries, green peas, cats pee. Charming :-)
Palate: Juicy gooseberries, slightly spicy peach. A little watery in the middle.
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2009 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc 90 Points
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
Nose: Gooseberry, vanilla, dusty. Restrained.
Palate: Restrained, slightly watery gooseberries, dusty, white pepper, hazelnut.
A little boring.
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