Community Tasting Notes 6

• CBRwineguy wrote:

  December 15, 2018 - Haut-Medoc lunch (Bel & Brio, Barangaroo, Sydney): The appearance is clear and medium ruby in colour.
  
  The nose is clean. The aromas have a medium intensity and show notes of oak (coffee, toast), bottle-age characters (leather), and herbaceous characters (green capsicum). The wine is developing.
  
  On the palate, the wine is dry with medium(+) acidity, medium alcohol, and full body. The high level tannins are ripe and velvety in nature. The flavours have a medium intensity and show notes of black fruit (blackcurrant), oak (coffee, toast), bottle-age characters (leather), and herbaceous characters (green capsicum). The finish has a medium(+) length.
  
  This is a very good quality wine. The flavours are concentrated and have a great balance with the alcohol and the acidity. The velvety tannins provide a great textural element that has a good balance with the acidity, allowing the tannins to fade away nicely on the back-palate. The oak treatment complements the flavour profile. In its current state, the wine shows primary, secondary, and tertiary characteristics. The wine has a finish with great length.
  
  The wine drinks well now, but has potential for further ageing. The fruit intensity is great and the tannin and acid structure should support the wine as tertiary notes continue to develop.

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• chatters wrote:

  December 15, 2018 - Haut Medoc Birthday lunch (Bel & Brio, Barangaroo): Coffee, biscuit, blackcurrant, earthy spice, leather,. Juicy to the point of sourness more red currant with lashings of tannins that are chalky and drying. Hmm.

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• chatters wrote:

  November 1, 2018 - Coravin fun - 1996 Medoc decision (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Slight coffee, a little toasted blackcurrant, mint, cream, some floral notes, some black plum, biscuit, leather. Chalky with a very slightly damp cellar underpin. Juicy, savoury with warm baked biscuit and plum, long, tannins resolved. Nice.

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• chatters wrote:

  May 27, 2018 - Coravin fun - food matching (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Wild blackcurrant, leather, mushrooms, herbs and spices, yeast extract, earth…Sourly juicy blackcurrant fruit, some bitter coffee grinds, leathery, flour textured tannins and a little warming savoury spice on the finish. Yum and crazy QPR at $30AUD a bottle

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• jkoenen wrote: 85 points

  August 11, 2007 - Bordeaux 1996 @ my place (Netherlands): Medium red. Bright red currants, bell pepper, slightly vegetal. Austere palate showing tobacco leaves, red currants again, cold coffee, considerable tannines. Good wine, agreeable. Wait? 15/20

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Château Patache d'Aux
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Médoc
• UPC Code 3303290151498

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• In Cellars 47 (70%)
• Consumed 20 (30%)

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