2003 Château Léoville Poyferré
Community Tasting Note
Purple Tooth wrote:
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 - You should always drink wines in kind...TIme and time again, I say this to friends. Dont mix your salad with your desert and dont mix your Bordeaux with your California Cabs/Reds.
Tonight this showed very generic and in-between something teetering on confusion and hesitation. No signs of aged Bordeaux qualities, yet not as lush as the older California wine next to it. The oak creme was evident, the acidity was evident, the structure was evident, and the fruit was absent or asleep. The 2003 vintage is all about fruit, so this was just a mess for the money. Hopefully just a bad bottle...drink again.
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Comment posted by djhammond:
9/20/2022 10:19:00 AM - Hey PT. I have had a couple of bad bottles, and it has always lagged behind its siblings in development but it has finally come good for me and I have had 3 bottles over the last 18 months which have been great.
Comment posted by Purple Tooth:
9/20/2022 10:48:00 AM - I think it was just out of place in the lineup Though I do remember it was previously one of my pics as a ringer in a California wine lineup. Hopefully just a bad bottle. I have a whole case left…
Comment posted by Mark1npt:
9/20/2022 2:36:00 PM - PT, sounds like a bad bottle to me......all mine have been beautiful fruit thus far.
Comment posted by Purple Tooth:
9/21/2022 6:40:00 AM - Let’s hope so…I’ll break into the new case to drink one of those. I need to get over my bottle shock!
Comment posted by Mark1npt:
9/21/2022 7:32:00 AM - Good luck with it, I have but 3 left.