Community Tasting Notes 89

• Cremuel Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 31, 2024 - Bob's cellar. Mid garnet red, hints of bricking but little. Nose is swirls of wild forest fruit, black cassis, damson, quite austere and rigid wind blowing through. Lots of fruit, little bit of forest floor funk, serious and good. Taste shows a dry, austere side, tannins pointed and present, fruit is dry and receded. After some air, not keen to open up, remains harsh and restrained. Bit disappointing after last year's bottle.
  Day 2, a completely different wine. Nose has rich sweet forest fruit, lovely liquorice and menthol, red fruit. Flavours are red fruit to the fore, fine tannins and black cherry, grip, delicious and really good. Note to self - open the day before for the remaining 3 bottles. Could drink this all day as an aged Bordeaux.

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• boillatm wrote:

  January 28, 2024 - Bought in an auction a couple of years ago. VTS (see picture). Opened shortly before serving.
  The thing I liked the most about this wine was its very lively deep ink red color.
  Other than that, this bottle was pretty unremarkable: not bad but rather anonymous as well. Disappointing

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• galewskj wrote: 90 points

  December 11, 2023 - Annual holiday get-together (St. Genevieve): Unknown treatment, drank a small glass over at least an hour. My experience seems consistent with several other notes here. This is easy drinking and pleasant, it doesn't have any sparkle or great interest as you would expect from a decent 1986 bordeaux. It would have been great with duck or a mushroom tart, not next to 1986 Gruaud Larose and hanger steak.

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• Shrewsram Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 25, 2023 - Roasted… oak? walnut? Sweet iodine and small black berries, damp smoke and a general reserved feel. Notes of oyster shell, more roasted notes too. Prettier with air and showing notes of olive, raspberry, spicy oak, and graphite.
  
  Light side of medium-bodied, feels like a ripe vintage there is a sense of coalescing to the core… good acidity, resolved tannins, sweet red notes, iodine, smoke and fire. There is a sweet succulence here and freshness.
  Almost ethereal, iodine, plasters, roast (beef), molten liquorice… sweetness on palate. What a treat!

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• jmbladen wrote: 96 points

  April 30, 2023 - Captains Club

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1986
• Type Red
• Producer Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Pauillac

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• Consumed 476 (38%)

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