Community Tasting Notes 20

• Cailles wrote:

  October 17, 2021 - 30x 1955 & 1961 (mostly Bdx): Tasted single blind. Sadly, this was dead. Stinky, vegetal, rancid notes.

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• Burgundy Al wrote: 90 points

  October 16, 2021 - Tony's 60th Birthday Celebration (Republique - Los Angeles CA): 1961 Bordeaux Flight. Mature black plum and cherry with savory and sweet spice. Good weight, still vibrant and interesting enough, this remained interesting for at least one hour. but alas, it got lost alongside its flight-mates. Better vs another bottle I tasted five years ago.

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• sirpat00 wrote: 70 points

  September 20, 2021 - Grand 1961 vs 1955 vintage tasting (Fribourg): Big 1961 vs 1955 tastings including 10 direct match-ups and 11 individual wines from 1961. The tasting was conducted in flights of 4, single-blind and with no previous decant with all bottles opened 1h prior to start. The line-up was dominated by Bordeaux reds, but also included 5 Sauternes, 1 Champagne, 3 Burgundy reds and 1 Ribera del Duero. The following observations are worth mentioning: i) 1961 generally came across as a better vintage today than 1955, ii) the performance correlated with the 1855 classification, iii) The most outstanding wines were outside of the Bordeaux reds with Veuve Clicquot Rosé '61, Vega Sicilia Unico '61 (both 97) and La Tour Blanche '61 (96) worth mentioning, iv) Top-performing Bordeaux was Margaux (95) in 1961 and Mouton in 1955. List of wines included in the tasting story.
   
   
  Tasting note:
  A super-intense nose showing distilled fruit notes and quite weird spices such as anise and curcuma. This did not taste like wine, even if the extreme nose did offer some allure initially. But the palate was so bad I could hardly keep the sip in my mouth long enough to move my face to the spittoon.

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• mattiasjansson wrote: 93 points

  January 21, 2020 - 1961 vs 1982 Bordeaux (Boston): Medium-dark. Medium fruit. Tannins still there. Long, beautiful finish.

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• BradE wrote:

  November 16, 2019 - The bottle was in fine shape. Good, but I expected great, and therefore was somewhat disappointed. Again, a good bottle, and drank well, it was more of an expectation issue.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1961
• Type Red
• Producer Château Pavie
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru

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• In Cellars 55 (79%)
• Consumed 15 (21%)

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