July 9, 2023 - Opened up beautiful after two hours decanting.
March 2, 2023 - From 375ml. Decent, but my sense if these are over the hill. Drink up.
December 30, 2022 - While we decanted and enjoyed over an hour or so, the initial taste after opening was delicious. This is drinking really well right now.
August 16, 2022 - Nice nose. Clean semi-lean fruit. Nice old school claret. For the $21 paid per half bottle a long time ago, I can't complain.
March 7, 2022 - Brilliant
January 27, 2022 - Deep ruby colored, black fruits, forest floor and cigar box on the nose. Palate delivered ripe blackberries, cedar, bell pepper, mushroom, vanilla, leather and graphite. Full bodied, high acidity, and melted tannins. Such a nice balanced between primaries and tertiary aromas. Drinking really good now !
January 3, 2022 - We had this wine paired with Tournedos Rossini. It went very well with the food. The food was excellent, unfortunately the wine did not keep up with the Northern Rhone I had with the previous course. Still a very nice wine and drinking very well right now. Double decanted as well.
June 1, 2021 - Deep ruby. Pronounced nose of ripe blackberry, cut grass, some fungals, and graphite. Some tannic bite, and mouthwatering acids, whilst a body that’s fairly hefty, and a rather savoury meaty attack, then blackberry, cedar, dried grass, dark florals, cloves, bell pepper, tar, and pencil shavings. Finish dominated with tart black fruits and grass
May 22, 2021 - FWSG tasting. Drank in Grassl 1855. Tasted semi-blind.
Appearance is clear, medium intensity, ruby colour with thin garnet rim. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of spicy red capsicum bell peppers, fresh moist earth, cedarwood, cigar, bit of pencil lead, dark red cherries, blackberries, black cherry. Developing.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, fine high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of blackcurrant, blackberry, black cherries, dark spice, bell peppers, cigar ash, pencil lead, emerging leather. Long finish.
Very good quality. Still room for more ageing and development, though it is certainly quite yummy and drinkable now already. Erm, actually it isn't much worse, and may actually even be a wee bit better than the actual 1996 Latour I tasted before...
February 25, 2021 - Medium garnet in colour. Pronounced nose intensity of cassis, toast, cedar, figs, prune, mushroom, dried raisin. Medium+ tannin and acidity. The bottle is in good condition, ullage is high. WOTN when drinking together with 1988 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, 1990 Château Cos d’Estournel and 2007 Chateau Palmer.