Community Tasting Note
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Xavier Auerbach wrote: 89 points
August 7, 2016 - It must be said: for a 16 year old Pessac-Léognan this is remarkably fresh and youthful, with primary flavours of red cherries. The flipside of that however is a dry and tannic character (double decanting alleviates this slightly), earthy, with a lack of flesh and charm and nothing of the melting smoothness of e.g. the Domaine de Chevalier 2000. It is sturdy peasant rather than a refined nobleman. And then there is that sense of rusticity, of unevenness even. It reflects itself in a note of red cabbage and/or an occasional whiff of cardboard. Reading back my notes, I see that this seems to be a pattern with this wine, but also that I once encountered this in a bottle of the (usually delicious) La Louvière 2000. Hard to say whether this is actually flawed or whether this is just the earthbound character of the wine. I will stick with my score of last year.
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Ary commented:
8/10/16, 4:05 AM - Great review; a study in wine.