2015 Château Beychevelle
Community Tasting Note
Keith Levenberg wrote:
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - Starts out promising, with snappy blackberry fruit on a slender frame with some toasty cedar in the background. But there's this not-so-fresh feeling on account of the edgy, drying tannins and a whiff of old used books, and that woodiness segues from fancy cedar to something more like decaying driftwood on the back end. Not corked, but I'll reserve judgment whether this is representative until I can try another bottle.
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Comment posted by englishman's claret:
3/23/2019 1:15:00 PM - I often find a slightly unclean, potato-peel-like / woody smell in Beychevelle. You reference decaying driftwood which I suspect is a different way of describing the same thing. Thoughts?
Comment posted by Keith Levenberg:
3/24/2019 12:37:00 PM - Could very well be. But I've always liked Beychevelle and can't recall anything like this in it before.
Comment posted by seanman:
5/5/2019 1:59:00 PM - There must be some variance. Mine was fantastic. Has some earthiness and a little forest floor in it but I felt it was in the background.