Alba, London.
Tasted Friday, February 8, 2008 by SimonG with 851 views
Mid garnet. Light, elegant, complex nose. Nuanced. Quite concnetrated on entry, complex and multidimensional. Long. Surprisingly elegant and complex rather than being a powerhouse. Slightly drying on the finish. Nose opening and improving with time. Plummy, spicy fruit. Slightly tobaccoey. Classy in an undefinable way - starquality like the 67 DRC Echezeaux at Davis P's recent offline. ****1/2. After an hour or so the nose is tobbaco dominated and it seems quite Graves-like. 3 hours on and asiatic spices have taken over and it's really hitting its stride. Very complex. After 3 1/2 hours, sweet asian spices and an Earl Grey tea-like aroma of bergamot dominate the nose whilst the palate is now really meaty - flavours just like a well hung rare wing-rib of beef. Just lovely.
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Fleshy, quite full and rounded. Really very easy to drink. Chocolate and violet on the nose. Lovely. ***1/2
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Chocolatey, fuller and denser and slightly more tannic. Reasonable length. Lacks finesse. **1/2
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Again, lovely fleshy texture, a little cooler and classier than the previous two. A long distance runner. **(**)
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Very rubbery nose - I'd guess a South African syrah. A little hard and ungenerous. Tannins integrated but quite short and lacking intensity. **
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Faint hint of rubber. Quite fleshy and rounded. Decent fruit. Quite tight, not generous at the moment but has potential. **(*)
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Lovely nose, good fruit, very expressive. Gorgeous fruit on the attack. Realy really lovely. Excellent weight and acidity. Very much what one imagines a Pomerol should be. Very complete. Super. *****
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Coffe and chocolate on the nose. Quite dry on entry. Classy, good fruit but in a cool and restrained style. Let down by the faintest hint of bitterness on the finish. ***(*)
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Fragrant, spicy, lovely nose. Cool fruit, nice structure. Better on nose than palate, but really nice. ***1/2
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Cool, dark chocolate nose. Cool fruit, nice balance and length. Good considering the year. ***
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Slightly stewed fruit nose. Quite evolved. OK though. A little acidic on the finish. Would make a nice drink with an informal supper but outclassed in this company. *1/2
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Bother, TCA. My bottle from TWS. Haven't done well tonight considering the 95 Plince was my other wine.
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Mid ruby. Quite light, some length. Really quite pretty. ***
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Slightly tea-like palate to start with. Earl grey / bergamot fragrance but more muted and less fleshy than the 89. Better structure and delineation though. Mineral. Excellent. ****1/2
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Lovely nose, slightly sweaty but good, complex fruit. far nicer on the nose than my last note of this. Lovely, velvety, smooth fruit. harmonious. Lovely balance, cool and quite long. The 90 tonight is a slightly better wine though. ****
A clear house style here - restrained, elegant and mineraly rather than fleshy and voluptuous. I like them but can see they might not be one's idea of typical Pomerol.
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Smelly nose. Quite off-putting. Light, reasonably sweet fruit. A little underwhelming. ***1/2
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Classy, restrained and elegant nose. Slightly mineral. Oops, minor TCA on palate.
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Dirty! This could be quite a fleshy Musar on the nose. Ripe and voluptuous. Very 1982. Sexy. Tooth-rottingly sweet fruit. Very appealing in a slightly slutty way. Just very very fun. *****
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1961 Château Petit Village
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Still a good colour, slightly deeper than the 82. Dense, fleshy garnet. Good fruit with slightly tarry elements on the nose. Positive. Lovely textre, smooth, nicely flavoured and decent length. This is very good. **** Still going strong ater three hours in the glass. Certainly one of the wines of the evening.
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1982 Château Petit Village
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Slightly paler than the 61; washed out, slightly sweaty nose initially. Also a little thinner in the mouth than the 61 but with higher acidity. Again, on returning to this it has developed a lovly complexity on the nose. palate nice, but more a 'good drink' than a wow wine for prolonged contemplation. ****
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1998 Château Petit Village
France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Pomerol
Stil slightly purple. Rubbery nose. Grippy on entry. Reasonable length but still very primary. Burnt rubber really coming through on the nose now. Improved with air - palate revealing more complexity and the tannins softening a little. After 30 minutes the burnt rubber has blown off and this has opened up nicely. Needs time. **(*1/2)
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