Community Tasting Note

blanquito wrote:

Sunday, July 12, 2009 - BWE does Manhattan: a 1996 & 2003 Bordeaux Retrospective: WINE #1: Tasted single blind in a flight of three with the 2003 Duhart-Milon and Pontet-Canet... I was nearly positive this was the Sociando. Dark, brooding, and great chewy depth, the telltale green pepper notes give this away as the Sociando. The biggest wine of the flight, on this night at least. My 2nd favorite.

Well, for the record, we all thought all of these 2003s were really outstanding and best of all, none of them displayed any freakish praline or roasted character. The Sociando can be enjoyed now given its great fleshy mid-palate, but it needs decades. After the dry 1996s, the riper sweeter nature of these 2003s was really engaging.

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