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2005 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Pessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend
5/29/2015 - Jojala wrote:
flawed
Opened one and slowox for some 6h, stored cold. Nice complex nose but thin and coarse palate, must be an off bottle. Just no sense of the balance I remember. So, open a second bottle with much hopes for different experience. Straight from bottle but 100% similar to the first bottle. What is wrong? These are pretty close to undrinkable. very long taste actually but nothing in the pleasant sphere. Dare not open a third!
  • Jojala commented:

    5/29/15, 10:52 AM - Bitterness I read from some fellow tasters notes. Yes, this is it, but it hits in the early palate and continues long. Bitterness sounds like an understatement to waste of money...

Red
2006 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Le Serre Nuove Bolgheri Red Bordeaux Blend
2/13/2014 - ddiego wrote:
90 points
big and bold. Not bad at all but not a very complex wine. We did side by side tasting with a Serre Nuove 2006 and the Ornallaia was way more interesting
  • Jojala commented:

    2/13/14, 9:14 PM - ...this is Oreno 2006 review, right?

Red
2005 Château La Tour Carnet Haut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend
2/11/2014 - slaughterer wrote:
94 points
There is a great deal of megalomania, narcissism, and bone-headed pretence in the Magrez empire that is bound to turn off a purist like me, and the fact that his wines are so thoroughly Parkerized and even have celebrity tie-ins makes matters worse. Nevertheless, I do think "La Tour Carnet", especially in top vintages, is a serious enough wine to warrant attention. This is bottle #4 for me, and I must say this wine is pleasant today, much better than the case of "Les Grand Chenes" 2005 I have nearly fully worked through. The high level of Merlot makes this wine have the full, dense, decadent black cherry fruit of a lot of the Right Bank in 2005, and the ripe Cab Sauv gives it a bit of Left Bank structure. Despite having quite a depot, the wine is showing a clear rim, and is surprisingly light in texture, sort of like a high-quality village Burgundy in a ripe vintage. Besides the crowd-pleasing big-cherry fruit, there is vanilla (another crowd pleaser), pudding, spearmint, cassis, and even sensations of terroir, by which I mean soil. I actually think, at $40 sticker price in futures, this was a good buy. At higher prices, there are other competitors that might triumph. Ignore the gaudy image of Magrez on the label and the prejudices you might have against his Napoleonic business empire philosophy, this is a very good wine.
2nd night: floral elements are combining with the fruit, and there are butterscotch and whiskey barrel notes mixed in now. The wine is now sinking down into the palate and spreading out very wide. Nice effort.
  • Jojala commented:

    2/11/14, 11:43 PM - ...what a great review. I wish everyone would write like this. One lone bottle in my cellar. Looking forward to drinking that sometime in the future... Greetings from Finland.

Red
2008 Château Léoville Barton St. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend
10/4/2013 - Jojala Does not like this wine:
87 points
Underwhelming. Tight, mouth coating tannins and some heat. Not a faulty bottle though, I think. Perhaps day 2 will give more.
  • Jojala commented:

    10/5/13, 2:41 AM - ...I hope age does miracles. I tend to believe more in thinking that a good wine is always good, no matter it is opened. But perhaps this is oversimplification.

  • Jojala commented:

    12/28/13, 11:21 AM - Sorry cannot recall. It might be that it was pop & pour but drank over 2 days. No significant improvement.

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