Community Tasting Note
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pavel_p Likes this wine: 95 points
December 31, 2017 - Bottle from a cold cellar, in neck fill, only bottom third of cork tainted. Slow ox’ed for 2h, followed by a 45 min decant. Still a fairly dark but clear garnet, no signs of browning whatsoever. Great, regal Pauillac from the first glass. Dark fruit, a touch sous bios and wood spices on the nose, plenty of iron on the palate, initially just a bit tight but really blossoms around the 60 min mark in the decanter, structure and tannins are still there but perfectly integrated with the still good fruit. Medium + finish of 45 seconds.
Unlike other notes here, and despite this being from a cold cellar, I thought it showed best somewhere at the 60-90 min mark in the decanter (+ 2h slow ox in this case), after that the fruit started retreating just a bit with the tannins becoming more evident. Still excellent but just a notch below the peak tonight.
Bottom line is this is a superb Pauillac, at First Growth level, and in my eyes in the middle of its peak drinking window. Likely to stay in this window for another 10-15 years and will be certainly still very nice to drink in 30 years.2 people found this helpful 5,507 views
2 Comments
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Burgnick commented:
1/7/18, 6:49 AM - My 90 mins decanting advice is not too shabby :)
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pavel_p commented:
1/7/18, 7:16 AM - Yep, good advice and good wine - thanks!