Community Tasting Note

• Life At Your Leisure 🍷 wrote: 96 points

  December 6, 2020 - Dark ruby color turning violet rust at the rim with a reflective edge. The nose gives off earthy leather and dried herbs on black fruits. The palate is full-bodied, powerful and youthful showing vibrant acidity that carries the ripe blackberry and cassis followed by secondary notes of cola, tobacco, leather and vanilla on toasted oak. This is really drinking well right now and finishes long and heightened with fleshy, gripping tannins. Drink now until 2043. 96+

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• Mark1npt commented:

  12/9/20, 5:23 AM - It's a great bottle, isn't it? One of my favs of the '03s....though I'm not sure I have the same faith as you that it'll be around in 2043! I know mine won't last that long, lol.......

• Life At Your Leisure 🍷 commented:

  12/9/20, 5:34 AM - Yes, truly a great wine. We had it alongside an ‘03 Ducru and ‘03 Poyferré, and it win WOTN.

• Mark1npt commented:

  12/9/20, 5:57 AM - All 3 of those are favs of mine from '03, esp the LP!

• hutch commented:

  12/10/20, 10:23 AM - I was hoping to wait until 2044 or '45 to drink mine. Do you think I should adjust plans to 2043?

• Life At Your Leisure 🍷 commented:

  12/10/20, 4:25 PM - It really depends on how you want your wines. I think we’re in opposite sides of the spectrum here in the sense that we like to live on the edge, but I’d rather err on the young side (because there’s still the benefit of decanting). I age my wines to a point where I estimate they’d be drinking well, but I rarely go beyond my estimated window. Have I been wrong before? Sure! And your intended year isn’t far off. I think it’ll be okay. Just make sure you store well.

• Mark1npt commented:

  12/10/20, 5:57 PM - lol...hutch.

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