Joe G visits for Bordeaux Tasting

My house
Tasted Saturday, November 15, 2008 by tarheel17 with 700 views

Flight 1 - dinner wine (1 Note)

  • 2001 Château Patris 86 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

    Nose: rusty olives, hidden fruit
    Palate: red fruits, firm tannin, which was very obvious. Nothing too amazing.

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Flight 2 - Cheapies (3 Notes)

  • 2003 Château Puygueraud 88 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Francs Côtes de Bordeaux

    Nose: very red fruit centric, vanilla, and a little paint fume vegetable thing going on. The palate was balanced, and I would happily consume this again, given the price.

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  • 2002 Château de Candale Haut-Médoc 87 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Haut-Médoc

    nose had a hefty dose of barnyard/brett, which was somewhat offputting. The palate was very bloody/meaty, but with steady red fruit for balance.

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  • 2000 Château Fourcas Dupré 83 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Listrac-Médoc

    nose: stone and just a mild hint of haybarn. THe nose and the palate were actually pretty uninteresting to me, lacking fruit or much personality. My least favorite wine of the flight and the night.

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Flight 3 - Graves, Margaux and St Julien (3 Notes)

  • 1999 Château Smith Haut Lafitte 88 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

    nose: pyrazines, blood, some wet animal notes, turning very toasty with some air. The finish left me a little bit underwhelmed with more tannin than fruit. I enjoyed the nose very much, however, the toasy nut flavors were quite pleasing.

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  • 1998 Alter Ego de Palmer 92 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux

    Boy, did I like this wine. nose had familiar pyrazine in green pepper form, some more rust than the Smith Haut Lafitte and also more intense fruit. The palate was so smoothly elegant I couldn't stop drinking it. Finished with really nice coffee notes.

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  • 1998 Château Gloria 89 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

    Nose: pyrazine, stony, with black tea aromas.
    Palate: thicker, heavier mouthfeel with darker fruits than the Alter Ego Palmer, more intense on the dark chocolate, too. I found it heavier, but also a touch more rustic than the elegant Margaux.

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Flight 4 - Pauillac and St Estephe (3 Notes)

  • 1981 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 90 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    nose: black olives (pyrazines), tar, with hints of salty junkfood (something akin to cheezits, though no one really jumped on that descriptor for the nose when I said it out loud...)
    palate: very plummy, and very smooth. I liked it at this stage. I wouldn't expect to gain much by aging it further.

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  • 1995 Château Clerc Milon

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    nose had some serious tar components, but I'm not sure if that was just my interpretation of Pauillac in general. No further notes, infortuantely - I must have gotten up mid-flight or something...

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  • 1996 Les Pagodes de Cos 89 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Estèphe

    Pyrazines on the nose, but a really nice chalky, melt-in-your-mouth mouthfeel. Burliest of the flight, but the one that stayed the longest (on tongue and in memory). WOuld have liked it to show some more fruit, though.

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Flight 5 - 'Older' Pomerol v St Emilion (2 Notes)

  • 1999 Château l'Ancien

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Lalande de Pomerol

    My notes at this point in the evening had lost some detail...
    appears I wrote down: milky, vanilla aromas and a chalky, heavy, bloody taste at the end. Very filling, but savory. I remember enjoying its weight on my tongue more than many wines from the tasting.

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  • 2000 Château Les Cabannes

    France, Bordeaux, Libournais, St. Émilion Grand Cru

    notes are as follows...memory is hazy....
    pyrazine and grill, campfire nose. "Blood-lite" aromas on the forefront.
    as for taste/palate...we'd have to go back in time. My notes at least indicate that I liked the Ch. L'ancien 1999 (pomerol) better than this St Emilion.

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Flight 6 - Younger Pomerol v St Emilion (2 Notes)

Flight 7 - Non-Bordeaux Bordeaux (3 Notes)

  • 2005 Rustenberg John X Merriman 86 Points

    South Africa, Coastal Region, Stellenbosch

    This flight featured 3 bordeaux blends from around the world. I was struck by the initial palate sweetness in comparison to the 14 previous bottles.
    But the pyrazine and ripe fruit, dill, rubber nose on this was not for me. Too stewed, too industrial-funky. My least favorite of the flight.

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  • 2000 Clos d'Agon Tinto 91 Points

    Spain, Catalunya

    nose: sandpaper, wet stone, and dark fruit
    paalte: much lighter and fruitier, and more acid that previously tasted bordeaux blends from Bordeaux. The fruit was so very focused and went straight to my tongue, like a laser. I guess I like lasers...

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  • 2003 Collazzi Toscana IGT

    Italy, Tuscany, Toscana IGT

    nose: anise, black cherry, and just gobs and gobs of delicious fruit.
    palate: dark chocolate, initial sweetness that fades to a great wine. Last wine of the tasting, and it still made quite the impression.

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