World's Greatest, Hong Kong - Night I (Bo Innovation): This nose is hugely opulent but dark and dense and requires a great deal of swirling to get a good read. Even with a lot of coaxing the nose doesn't want to give up too much expression. Brooding. The palate however is excellent with chocolate covered cherries and black currant. This is clearly the wine of the flight, probably the best of the Bordeaux category, although I think the '59 Latour is a little more interesting, but others are calling this a clear wine of the night. I'm impressed but not blown away. Textrually dense. Not straightforwardly gettable like most First Growth showings. I wish I spent more time figuring this out.
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Quite dark in color with a nose of old black fruits and an Autumnal forest. Seems still young and a bit unforgiving but still very refined if a bit linear like many '61's. It improved in the glass though and began to show some lovely flavors of decayed cherries and a complex finish with notes of black minerals and dark spices. 94+ Beau Rivage, Geneva, 6/14
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Purple red color with a darker more complex nose of plums and spices, this is truly a wonderful wine that improved substantially in the glass with time. 96 points
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Very extracted nose and this carried on to the color, which was so, so dark. Elements of the old style California wines that were highly extracted for power but to the detriment of elegance. Certainly a big wine and with many admirers. (per se)
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6/7/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 96 Points
World's Greatest, Hong Kong - Night I (Bo Innovation): This nose is hugely opulent but dark and dense and requires a great deal of swirling to get a good read. Even with a lot of coaxing the nose doesn't want to give up too much expression. Brooding. The palate however is excellent with chocolate covered cherries and black currant. This is clearly the wine of the flight, probably the best of the Bordeaux category, although I think the '59 Latour is a little more interesting, but others are calling this a clear wine of the night. I'm impressed but not blown away. Textrually dense. Not straightforwardly gettable like most First Growth showings. I wish I spent more time figuring this out.
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7/13/2015 - aquacongas wrote: flawed
Fake bottle
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6/13/2014 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
Quite dark in color with a nose of old black fruits and an Autumnal forest. Seems still young and a bit unforgiving but still very refined if a bit linear like many '61's. It improved in the glass though and began to show some lovely flavors of decayed cherries and a complex finish with notes of black minerals and dark spices. 94+ Beau Rivage, Geneva, 6/14
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6/10/2014 - ricknat1 wrote: 96 Points
Purple red color with a darker more complex nose of plums and spices, this is truly a wonderful wine that improved substantially in the glass with time.
96 points
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5/16/2014 - lepetitchateau wrote: 91 Points
Very extracted nose and this carried on to the color, which was so, so dark. Elements of the old style California wines that were highly extracted for power but to the detriment of elegance. Certainly a big wine and with many admirers. (per se)
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