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Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 92 points
April 22, 2019 - I was quite blown away as how this wine improved dramatically on a PnP with an Easter dinner with lamb. I expected this to be closed down, heavy handed with oak and white tannic. To some extent it was all that pouring and taking a sip without swirling but using my glass and following this over 2.5 hours, I was impressed what a wonderful wine this was and how the new oak, though not yet integrated, framed the red berry, red cherry and chassis driven fruit. The tannins were very pleasant in texture coating the mouth yet having just a hint of sweetness as opppsed to being overly chewy or grippy. Good acid and mineral made the earth deco day and slight touch of baking spices fill out this young wine.
I can’t see this doing anything but improving over the next 5-10 years and I’m thrilled I grabbed a case based on the very nice decanter review. I plan on drinking another bottle tomorrow night with a steak to see if the bottles vary by much.
It seems that when a petit Château pulls off this kind of extraordinary effort it should be celebrated and rewarded. I’ve had wines costing 5x as much taste much worse in youth.
It reminds me just a bit of how surprising the second wine of 2015 Calon-Ségur was drinking almost one year ago. Stunning as I have not had many great experiences with second wines either.3 people found this helpful 2,850 views