Community Tasting Note

amred wrote:

Saturday, January 22, 2011 - Completely different experience than the last bottle. While a hint of "barynyard" in the nose, rather garrigue and earth were dominant. Just a hint of brick, but color still dense. In the mouth, lots of tar and leather, herbs/garrigue but with sweet ripe fruits still evident. The wine has smoothed out, but the fruit is still solid. A classic aged ChdP with a different character than the young wine, but still great structure and flavors. We thought the tar/leather/meat was dominant, but not barnyard, and everything was well integrated. We also tasted a 98 Beaucastel, and found them remarkably similar--98 was a great vintage and the wines appear to have been similarly made, with the intent to age well. In each instance, several years ago we were disappointed--perhaps the wines needed the additional years. Great wine. we had no sense of either overripe (I don't think these wines were as highly extracted or alcoholic as recent vintages) nor intense barnyard/brett (despite our experience with the same wine two years ago).

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