October 2, 2023 - Beatiful bordeaux, but rather on the light side and the fruit is only subtle. I like it with food and without decant. Drink up until 2024-2025
September 17, 2021 - Earthy barnyard nose. Tabaco, vanilla, pencil shaving, and Oak. Fading tannins. Was obviously a treat in its prime but now past its time. Drink up.
September 4, 2021 - Stable, some tobacco and lots of earthy notes. The little dark fruit which was left was fading fast. Still enjoyable but past its prime. Drink up now. (IG)
August 29, 2021 - Leather, red cassis, mushrooms, tobacco, and a slightly dusty note on the nose. Quite acidic with integrated tannins, iron, and some red fruit flavors. Good finish. This is fully mature and I don’t think it’s going to improve from here, but the wine is pleasure to drink. A bit lighter style of Bordeaux, especially for 86.
December 12, 2020 - 4 years since I last had this wine, and luckily this is a perfect bottle. In neck/bottle neck fill, clean and dry top of cork with only the bottom third soaked. Slow ox’ed for about 30 min. Still a dark garnet with a fairly wide translucent rim, no browning. Great showing, a touch of cedar on the attack, then iron and rich deep dark fruit integrated with tobacco notes, a touch of sweetness perhaps hinting at Margaux but overall more Pauillac than Margaux in style in 86, fine to medium tannins still providing a solid structure. Medium finish. I love 86 Bordeaux.
A very solid 93 and the fruit in good bottles like this will easily last another 10 years.
November 20, 2020 - Made from Cabernet Sauvignon (69 %), Merlot (22 %), Cabernet Franc (8 %).
Colour: Brownish w. orange hue.
Bouquet: Developed but still pure. Blackcurrant was predominant w. tobacco, liquorice, compost, prunes, herbs and malty sweetness like a heavy stout.
Palate: Dry, med- tannins, med acid and med+ body wchich shouln't be mistaken for heavy but rather elegant and dancing on the palate. The tannins are rounded and refined and overall making the wine silky soft, persistent and beautifully matured.
33 years old and still both fresh and fruity. A wonderful example of just how well Bordeaux last.
April 10, 2020 - Rich cedar nose but not much fruit left. Seems a little thin on the finish.
April 10, 2020 - Rich cedar notes but not much fruit left.
January 2, 2020 - A bit past its peak (in 2019)
October 5, 2018 - A very nice, fully-mature wine here, that manages not to display the hard tannins found in the majority of wines from this difficult year. Medium bodied, soft, finesse in style, there is a complex, earthy, cherry, pipe tobacco filled bouquet that meshes perfectly with the soft, earthy, red fruits on the palate. There is no reason to age this any further. The wine was made from a blend of 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc.