Community Tasting Notes 7

• Jeff Leve wrote: 97 points

  September 1, 2023 - Flowers, cherries, plums, truffles, licorice, and a touch of cocoa in the nose. On the palate, the wine is rich, deep, multi-layered, and multi-faceted, with a long, intense finish, packed with dark chocolate, plums, espresso, spice, and black cherries. Texturally, this is creamy and sensuous, with length and lift on the palate and the back end. You can enjoy this today, but it is only going to get better with age. Drink from 2023-2045.

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• LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 2, 2022 - First 2018 Feytit Clinet and while I would have preferred waiting another few years before popping, I had an opportunity to add more so wanted to give it a spin. While this wine needs the time, it is a decadent treat at this stage. Cassis, bitter dark chocolate, plum, tobacco, slate and a wonderfully long finish. Not for the classic palate as this is a full bodied opulent wine. Decant to allow alcohol to blow off a bit and bring out the layers. Tuck away for 3-5 years and enjoy.

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• TomBarcis Likes this wine:

  December 6, 2021 - NR due to inexperience drinking such wine so young
  Opened and tested very small pour at 11am to find dark and opaque wine with nose of cloves, faint sandalwood and a background of ripe cherries. Smooth as silk and opulent taste with more spices, dark cherries and stewed plums. Wine deepening over 30 minutes in glass with last impression still of plums but with dark chocolate and licorice.
  First evening after slow @12°C wine is abundantly fruity with blackcurrant, plum and cherry, with chocolate again although lighter in profile initially. Cloves and cedar notes meant this wine paired exceptionally with cote de boeuf and bearnaise sauce
  Sunday lunch pour having returned to 12°C overnight is again darker, slight bitter chocolate and again licorice notes. Fruit is ripe cherries. Tannins becoming drier and less opulent mouthfeel whilst still being relatively smooth. Worked well with roast lamb, although this more than anything highlights the slight lack of acidity and freshness in this bottle.
  Enjoyable experience, but will not look for more.

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• marcus_francois Likes this wine:

  September 22, 2021 - First pour was truffle and plum liqueur goodness. I drank this after taking another all too early look at ‘18 clos l’eglise, and this is definitely the more classically styled of the two. More purple fruited, plummy not tobacco-driven and tarry. Night one this seemed medium-full bodied but on second day, firmly full bodied. Day 2 this initially was very primary but showed an impressive amount of secondary characteristics with air. Truffle, gravel, graphite. Intensely floral and chocolatey. While this could pass as drinkable now with food, but much better will come to those who wait.

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• ledocq Likes this wine:

  August 30, 2021 - Hey, here's a crazy fact: you can pop and pour this and it's great! That isn't always the case for Feytit (that's going on the 2009 and 2014 that I'm familiar with). This is absolutely wonderful - deep, complex, tight, too young, rich, velvety, with an alluring aroma that will fill your entire house when you pull the cork. You'll also note that it's packed and stacked with layers that are going to be revealed in 10 and 20 years, so if you have multiple bottles, good for you. EDIT: Night two - holy $&^*ING hell! The profile on this just exploded. It's spicy and deep and bursting with that full-on Pomerol mystery. The only issue is that the alcohol (15%!) is pretty goddamn vivid. So I guess that's a push to hold into these longer than, you know, a few months in bottle : )

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Château Feytit Clinet
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation Pomerol
• UPC Codes 3453521242812, 639737964844

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• Pending Delivery 39 (8%)
• In Cellars 413 (86%)
• Consumed 31 (6%)

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