Community Tasting Note

• tomjputney Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 11, 2020 - Medium, black currant, sour cherry and black pepper. Hint of smoke and leather. Well balanced acidity and tannin

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7 Comments

• Geoffy commented:

  7/11/20, 11:29 AM - That's a fairly severe score for a wine you seemed to have quite enjoyed?

• tomjputney commented:

  7/11/20, 11:41 AM - Oops I’ve never really got my head round the scoring. I assumed 80 is about 8 out of 10, i.e. pretty good, would buy again

• uve commented:

  7/11/20, 11:47 AM - 81 would mean barely above average in comparison to all wines
  https://www.robertparker.com/ratings

• Geoffy commented:

  7/11/20, 11:54 AM - Hi Tom. You make a good point. Most people on here ignore the first 80-85 points on the scale (guilty, yer honour!), and not many of us are frequent drinkers of wines that warrant a 95+ score.
  So let's say 15 points to play with, 8 out of 10 gets you to 90ish.
  
  I've enjoyed many Thalabert vintages and have generally rated them 89-92.
  Not tried my 2015's yet but looking forward to them.

• srh commented:

  7/11/20, 1:43 PM - "Not tried my 2015's yet but looking forward to them." Geoffy, having tasted this 5x (10/6/18 being the most recent), I *doubt* you'll be disappointed! ;) [FYI, *should* you be interested, I've just uploaded specific info for this vintage, including acclaim, which can be accessed via the CellarTracker Article link (lower lft)].

• nowine4u commented:

  7/11/20, 6:30 PM - Based on Goeffy's comment, it might be helpful to adjust/edit your posted score.

• tomjputney commented:

  7/12/20, 12:05 AM - Thanks Geoffry, that’s a really useful explanation, score updated

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