Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Saturday, April 22, 2023 - A Fourcaud Laussac bottling. This was an immense bottle of wine. Highly complex, ever evolving, a still intriguing sweetness to balance all the tertiary aromas, lots of life and tension and a perfect harmony. This was Bordeaux at its best and classically shaped despite the warmer year. I’ve had this vintage before (Chateau bottling) and while very good (95pts), this was lightyears ahead in terms of layerdness and precision. This was the consensus WOTN although my vote goes to the Vandermeulen Chambertin 1947 (99pts) due to the slightly better nose. On the palate, however, this was clear perfection. This is 98/99pts.

TN: Impressive, dense bouquet displaying layers of dark fruit, animalic, truffles, tobacco and minerality. Very intriguing and complete but the palate is, what makes this wine so outstanding: Lots of concentration. Ever changing, unbelievably complex aroma profile of riper dark berries, fresh red berries, dark red berries, loads of tobacco and truffle, layers of mushroom, earthy and minerality notes, some smoke and bbq notes and with time hints minty notes and herbs and here and there a tiny waft of brett. All the earthiness and tertiary notes are so well balanced by an intriguing, pure fruit sweetness helped with hints of honey. Lots of tension and an intact tannic structure without any hard edges, beautifully integrated, fresh and harmonious, light and airy but with good concentration from start to the long finish.

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