Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Monday, July 19, 2021 - 15 Mature Bordeauxs Magnums (with Heitz MV in the mix): The tasting was concluded with three sweet wines. All from magnum. Winner was the La Tour Blanche 1945 (95 pts) which showed wonderfully mature with a beautiful fruit sweetness, balanced by a superb freshness and lots of tertiary development. Quite similar with a bottle of Yquem 1948 (98 pts) we had the day before with a little bit less of everything. The Guiraud 1967 (91 pts) was fresh, complex and balanced but didn’t had a desired level of purity with a lot of chemical notes showing. Tasted blind, the rare Gantenbein Vin de Paille 1997 (92 pts), showed very layered, sweet, balanced by a very good freshness but showed port-like ripeness and aroma profile which I just don’t like.

TN: Medium+ Expressive nose with fudge, caramel, crème brulee, citrus and apricot. Medium+ intense and nicely fresh. On the palate it is a tad less complex and needed some time to become more expressive and harmonious. It showed the same aromatic profile. Very good freshness. Overall a tad less clean boytritis profile and a tad sweeter than the almost perfect Yquem 1948 from the day before. Still, this was a lot of fun to drink and should improve for many more years.

Decanting: Not decanted, became better by the minute. Could have needed 1h+ in the decanter.

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