Community Tasting Notes 23

• tooch wrote: flawed

  April 28, 2024 - Oxidized.

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• Vas19 wrote: 91 points

  April 15, 2024 - Nice nose with some red berries, green pepper, and coffee. Palate shows some aged notes, but still has nice acidity, and a little bit of unresolved tannin. Might age my next bottle about 5 years.

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• LoireFan wrote:

  April 2, 2024 - Very pleasing.

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• tastark Likes this wine:

  December 25, 2023 - Our first experience with BAMA. Appears to be a recent library release as it had a new cork and label. This is classic Bordeaux and very enjoyable. That said, it seems to be on the decline and was showing signs of oxidation. Drink up.

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• grafstrb wrote:

  October 4, 2023 - -- decanted approx. 1 hr. before initial taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over approx. 1.5 hrs. --
  
  NOSE: baked raspberry; some aged Bdx. leather, as well as a background mineral element; smoky beef jerky; pretty expressive, and also high-toned.
  
  BODY: ruddy garnet color of medium to medium-deep depth; medium bodied.
  
  TASTE: meaty -- smoky beef jerky; medium+ acidity; no tannin; hint of pyrazine; strikes me as at peak, unless you like your aged Bdx. to taste like black tea, in which case keep waiting. Ash guessed "California." It's certainly *not* "pretty Margaux." If served blind, I *might* get to Bdx. on account of "aged Bdx. funk/leather, and hint of pyrazines," but -- more than anything else -- this reminds me of a Cayuse Syrah with about 10 years on it. Drink Now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Château Bel Air-Marquis d'Aligre
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Margaux

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• Pending Delivery 7 (3%)
• In Cellars 156 (65%)
• Consumed 78 (32%)

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