Community Tasting Notes 7

• Cremuel Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 2, 2023 - JD and Glen tasting - aged red, bricking very evident. Reddish with brick tone. Nose is leather, hints of fruit and mustiness, still ok fresh. Opens with a blast of acidity, quite red, tastes very closed and showing its age, very asleep. Not particularly good on opening, but with some air this improves markedly. Age blows off, the acidity drops and decent fruit appears, tannins are very finely laced across the fruit and this becomes pretty good. In fact better than pretty good, it’s very enjoyable. Not as good as previous tastings of the 82, but high quality and the decades fall away.

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• chatters wrote: flawed

  December 25, 2022 - Christmas Day 2022 (My place, Kent Street): Corked. FLAW

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• pavel_p wrote: 88 points

  May 7, 2022 - Top shoulder fill but cork slightly sunk in. Black mold on the cork and a moldy whiff upon opening the bottle made me think this would go down the drain. However the moldy notes blow away with about 30 minutes of air in the open bottle. Good translucent garnet in the glass with little browning. plenty of cedar and some leather and tobacco joining the fruit , fully resolved tannins, short finish. Nice, given the age but not a great 78 Bdx.

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• Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  September 13, 2018 - Some earthy development on the nose along with briary fruits, sweet tobacco and cedar. It is full in the mouth, with a sweet, vinous core that has a creamy feel. Tannins have all but melted away but the wine has an excellent line of fresh, minerally acidity. It is a mid-weight Bordeaux of good balance and proportion, drinking at the top of its game.

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• DrZett wrote: 89 points

  April 6, 2015 - Still in good condition but not very interesting at all. Drink up now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1978
• Type Red
• Producer Château Calon-Ségur
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation St. Estèphe

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• In Cellars 166 (86%)
• Consumed 28 (14%)

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