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mtarrant003 Likes this wine: 96 points
December 25, 2018 - We offered this the respect due and gave it five hours in the decanter ahead of Christmas dinner which was duly repaid.
Lots of black fruit and confected cherries on the nose from the get-go, with tobacco and spice emerging as time went on. Incredibly weighty on the palate but also very smooth with a medium finish. Somehow a little of this remained until Boxing Day and was still going strong with further emergence of spicy and earthy flavours. Good times.
This is clearly only just getting started and has a very long life ahead of it during which it will no doubt gain in complexity. My most recent point of comparison for this vintage was a bottle of Cos d'Estournel, just over the St Estephe-Pauillac border in close proximity to Pontet Canet and so for me is a helpful comparison. The Cos was also excellent but quite a bit more evolved than the PC and maybe a sign of things to come here.7 people found this helpful 11,436 views