Community Tasting Note

• kkazaks wrote: 83 points

  December 20, 2016 - My first experience with this particular chateau.
  
  Well this wine has the nose of a New World wine - big ripe blackberries, vanilla, and creme de cassis, a distinct smell of toasty oak (all by itself, not built into a more complex aroma), licorice, a touch of crushed peppermint.
  
  On the palate minerality provides depth, with a distinctive Bordelais note. There is good acidity and a mouthwatering oak tannin note. The ripe black fruit flavors persist.
  
  In its peak drinking window. Not that it wouldn't last, but I don't see this holding together to be a more dynamic wine years in the future.

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4 Comments

• Jimaronson commented:

  12/20/16, 8:25 PM - Everyone else gave it around 95 points. Are you really at 83? Your descriptors seem very positive.

• kkazaks commented:

  12/20/16, 8:31 PM - Yes was meant to be an 83 - thanks for asking.
  
  It's not a bad wine, but it doesn't have the true elegance and grace - ideally suited with depth and complexity - to make it a great Bordeaux. For that, I expect a wine of better balance, not something overweight with extraction and oak.
  
  Better than a pure extract bomb like some New World Cab wines, but the heavy-handed new oak cloaks what this wine really could be.
  
  For reference, I consider 1994 Mouton to be a 86/87 point wine, and it is better than the Larcis Ducasse. it isn't as big or juicy as the Larcis Ducasse, but allows its breeding to shine through, without the oak overdominating.

• Jimaronson commented:

  12/21/16, 4:19 AM - Thanks, I get it. I can't open a bottle until May and will report back at that time.

• kkazaks commented:

  12/21/16, 6:35 AM - Thanks! Look forward to it.
  
  I take it kind of as a pretty girl with too much makeup - what would she look like if it had been applied more elegantly?

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