Domaine Delon Masterclass

Vaucluse Cellars, New South Head Road
Tasted Friday, November 3, 2017 by chatters with 278 views

Introduction

When I was in Bordeaux Daniel mentioned he was hosting this tasting so I asked (begged) a spot. Tasting led by Florent Genty.

Flight 1 (10 Notes)

  • 2009 Fugue de Nénin

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

    Plum, spice, slightly jubey red plums over slight chocolate. A touch of ripe berry, raspberry, juicy, very slight more savoury on the palate than the nose. It's a little alcoholically warm, tannins are fine grabbing gums more than the palate. It's a little short.

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  • 2009 Château Nenin

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol

    Medium plus intensity aromas of ripe rich plums over blackberry, cream, very slightly dusty sweet spice. Chocolate and a little sweet tobacco. Rich, dense, rich, weighty. Similar fruit profile to the nose on the palate. Tannins are silky. It's only been ope a couple of hours but the comparison between this and freshly opened one in Bordeaux is tangible. Again, though, I'd suggest the nose offers more than the palate though it does travel long.

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  • 2005 Château Potensac

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc

    Plums over spice. It's a little rustic over slightly polished oak, sweet spice. Slightly leathery but there is also a quite perfumed top note and a slightly corked element. Juicy acidity, fresh, but the fruit is a little more muted here and the tannins are chewy and grippy. It also, oddly, feels a little green. Not for me.

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  • 2000 Château Potensac

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc

    Just beginning to show a little cork taint for me and not enough to call it a flaw at this stage. Plenty of leather, cigar box, starting to get a touch of sour bois, also a fair amount of cedar. Woof. It's quite acidic on the palate, sharp in fact. The tannins are quite drying through fines textured. with time in the glass a little sweet blackcurrant on the nose and it's savoury twin on the palate. Hmm.

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  • 2009 Clos du Marquis

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    ripe blackcurrant, cassis, sweet plum, cream, vanilla, cigar box, slightly toasted oak and warm sweet spice. Lovely, juicy, similar flavour profile, quite rich, I like it but it's very big and bolshy, a little new world if you will. I really like this, for what it is, if that makes sense

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  • 2001 Clos du Marquis

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Earthy, funky, leathery, spice, mulch and sous bois with a touch of cassis. Juicy. Tannins are bolder than the 2009 and this is more red than black fruit. The 2009 actually feels like more of an outlier. This still has some primary fruit though and is by no means falling over. Hmm. Quite pleasant.

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  • 2005 Château Léoville Las Cases

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Medium plus intensity aromas of almost concentrated black currant tending to cassis backed by plentiful spice, oak and very slightly perfumed red berry fruit. Blossoms in the glass. Juicy, spicy, crunchy blackcurrant fruit, silky but grippy drying tannins. A little closed on the palate. Rather nice and, with time, that beautiful red berry note grows. This really is very good and I would like to spend an awful lot of time with it.

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  • 1996 Château Léoville Las Cases

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    What a lovely nose. Toast, biscuit, earthy but with cassis over blackcurrant, spice and pretty red berries. There is almost a slightly jammy element. Some tertiary stuff as well - leather, touches of sous bois, mint. Lovely, juicy, thick, dense tannins but it's still fleshy with black and red fruit, long superb.

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  • 1990 Château Léoville Las Cases

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Earth, leather, sous bois, mushroom, almost bonfire note. Some black spicy fruit and a little funkiness. Tastes of age, I'm in a gentleman's club, I'm licking a chesterfield that someone has spilled venison with truffles and berries on. Yum.

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  • 1989 Château Léoville Las Cases

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Spice, earthy, almost a lanolin note, quite fresh. A little primary fruit, cream even. Shows less age than the 1990 but that might be because it's recently been recorked and topped up from 1989 jeroboam. In the mouth it's juicy, fruity, leathery as well. Travels preposterously long the palate. Fine but persistent tannins. Surprisingly fresh.

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Closing

And what a wonderful tasting. Superb. Marvellous. Leoville Las Cases has, over the last year or so, really made it's presence felt in my wine world.

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