Très beau vin malgré un millésime difficile. Bordeaux-like nez+bouche. Hypersouple, texture soyeuse, peu tannique, cuir fin, passablement long. Ne fait pas ses 32 ans. Personne n'a callé Italie..
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The GP's birthday; 17 special bottles: Beautiful bouquet with autumn impressions, fennel, tobacco and some pleasant barnyard. On the palate red berries, beautiful spiciness, a firm amount of (Italian) acidity and bitterness and lovely soft tannin. A very beautiful and luxurious wine.
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Nyetimber Vertical + some Unexpected Gems (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): Sweet seduction - I was charmed by this wine. It had such a beautiful nose to begin with, almost dripping out of glass with sweet notes of ripe cherries and red berries, rich, even with an edge of candy, before they ceded way to deeper cassis aromas and then bits of herb and tobacco and a pat of earth - really nice stuff. It could almost have been a Bordeaux if not for that extra edge of sunny sweetness. Just lovely on the palate too – very round, ripe, but so wonderfully balanced and juicy, with mouthwatering flavours of sweet red berries, sunny cherries and cassis laced with delightful little notes of herb and spice. So very yummy, and so youthful too; this was practically glowing with a lovely verve and energy lent to it by lovely, supple acidity. It ended very suitably in a long, wonderfully integrated finish sprinkled with some warm spice and the lightest shades of tobacco and tea leaf. Wow. It may lack some of the complex nuance of a great Bordeaux at its age, but this was nevertheless beautiful stuff, already drinking well now, with its tannins having softened into a velvety robe, but this was still so youthful and lively that it could easily go one for decades yet. This was easily a match for both the excellent and far more expensive 1970 Lafite and 1979 Haut-Brion that we drank alongside.
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12/20/2023 - sempervinum wrote: 88 Points
From Magnum stored in a perfect cellar. Mushrooms and forest floor. Some fruit left. Soft tannins. OK to drink but not a wine to look for.
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10/29/2021 - olioli wrote: 93 Points
Très beau vin malgré un millésime difficile.
Bordeaux-like nez+bouche.
Hypersouple, texture soyeuse, peu tannique, cuir fin, passablement long.
Ne fait pas ses 32 ans.
Personne n'a callé Italie..
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6/5/2021 - Winemaker227 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Tolle Nase, dunkle Beeren, Johannisbeere, präsente Tannine, vielschichtig und vollmundig im Geschmack. Kann noch liegen.
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12/9/2013 - Zweder wrote: 92 Points
The GP's birthday; 17 special bottles: Beautiful bouquet with autumn impressions, fennel, tobacco and some pleasant barnyard. On the palate red berries, beautiful spiciness, a firm amount of (Italian) acidity and bitterness and lovely soft tannin. A very beautiful and luxurious wine.
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7/20/2013 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Nyetimber Vertical + some Unexpected Gems (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): Sweet seduction - I was charmed by this wine. It had such a beautiful nose to begin with, almost dripping out of glass with sweet notes of ripe cherries and red berries, rich, even with an edge of candy, before they ceded way to deeper cassis aromas and then bits of herb and tobacco and a pat of earth - really nice stuff. It could almost have been a Bordeaux if not for that extra edge of sunny sweetness. Just lovely on the palate too – very round, ripe, but so wonderfully balanced and juicy, with mouthwatering flavours of sweet red berries, sunny cherries and cassis laced with delightful little notes of herb and spice. So very yummy, and so youthful too; this was practically glowing with a lovely verve and energy lent to it by lovely, supple acidity. It ended very suitably in a long, wonderfully integrated finish sprinkled with some warm spice and the lightest shades of tobacco and tea leaf. Wow. It may lack some of the complex nuance of a great Bordeaux at its age, but this was nevertheless beautiful stuff, already drinking well now, with its tannins having softened into a velvety robe, but this was still so youthful and lively that it could easily go one for decades yet. This was easily a match for both the excellent and far more expensive 1970 Lafite and 1979 Haut-Brion that we drank alongside.
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