Community Tasting Note
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Keith Levenberg wrote: 94 points
September 25, 2019 - Toasty campfire scents followed by bold and massively structured fruit that reflects as much grape-skin as grape-flesh, both equally intense. The style difference vis-a-vis the 2015 is dramatic, as the black-cherry fruit here is both denser a few octaves deeper than the bright juicy fruit of the 2015, and the structure in particular makes this a muscular heavyweight relative to a mouthfeel in the '15 that I found almost Burgundian. Still, with some food you can discern an elegant, polished figure behind that structure. I don't quite understand some of the fretting that this has gone modern - sure, the fruit has some primary freshness and gloss but young Bordeaux needn't be entirely fruitless. One modern element I do salute is the Diam cork - cellar with confidence.
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