Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Sunday, October 17, 2021 - 30x 1955 & 1961 (mostly Bdx): Tasted single blind. Bombastic on the nose, great mature claret. But then quite sour on the palate. This is the story of this wine. 96 pts on the nose, 87 on the palate. So 90 pts overall?

TN: Wonderful mature Bordeaux nose with tobacco, wet forest floor, some truffles, old leather and some brett notes as well as some dark fruit underneath. Nicely clean and precise. Easily 96 pts on the nose, only a bit more sweet fruit was missing for a quite perfect nose. Sadly the palate did not show as good. On the attack and mid palate there is good power and tension with red and dark fruits and many of the same tertiary aromas but towards the finish there is an intense astringency which make it quite unpleasant.

Decanting: Not decanted, no extensive decanting needed.

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