Community Tasting Note

• Cailles wrote: 89 points

  July 22, 2020 - Aged Bordeaux Gems (with Unico/Heitz MV in the mix): Magnum. Tasted double blind. Unfortunately, this was a weak bottle. While there was no TCA taint detectable, it was slightly disjointed and astringent. Others in the room suggested that it this would come around with a long decant. I’m not really sure about that. Beside a lot of fake bottles out there, you always fight with a quite high bottle variation when buying an 80s Mouton… hence, to chase the 82 is probably not a risk worth taking on the secondary market these days.
  
  TN: Dark fruit, graphite on the nose. Disjointed palate with lots of minerality and herbs along a rather muted dark fruit core. Not very balanced and harmonious but with quite some density. Fine tannins, not well integrated acidity.
  
  Decanting: Double decanted only. Probably would have needed a long decant

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• lockestep commented:

  7/22/20, 6:46 AM - Wondering how you obtained the bottle - was it a recent purchase, or something that had been held since release? Adding that context would help in determining how to weight your experience against others.

• Cailles commented:

  7/22/20, 7:54 AM - The host of this tasting is specialized in travelling France (in addition of having two guys locally), buying up old local wine cellars, and interesting lots at local auctions in France (so French wines which never left France). Good provenance is usually guaranteed and I hardly ever had bad bottles. So while the process is clean and the reputation of the host's business is impeccable, it's not one of this "both En Primeur and since then stored in my cellar" bottles.
  
  On this particular bottle: I usually try to include the fill level. Too bad I haven't seen the fill level for this bottle and can't tell you anything about that. The label was not in the best condition (which however doesn't tell you much about the cellaring conditions).
  
  I've had better bottles before, as have a lot of other people. But going through the cellartracker notes, you'll find weaker bottles frequently. Mouton has a bit of a reputation of a rather high bottle variation.

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