Coravin fun - 1994 Bordeaux and supps (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. On the nose it shows pyrazine, cream, brambles, blackcurrant, slight oaky notes and a little cassis, a little blood/iron and, with time, a meaty underpin. Juicy, fleshy, dark hued fruits, slightly chalky tannins, slight leather though I find this quite youthful, fair lick of oak on the palate, very nice.
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SlowOed at rest. No formal decant. Cork intact, min sed. Typical nose n palate for this 25 yo Bordeaux. Soft mouthfeel. Nice and in a good place tonight. Tasted youthful in comparison to the 64’ Cos that we also drank, it was in a good place as well. Cheers to Bordeaux.
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Probably a bit over prime. Still very typical Cabernet (Franc) nose, very elegant with still present tannins and acid. More Burgundy than Bordeaux now.
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A bit past prime although it was not apparent from the color. Nice medium garnet with a touch of bricking. While this was classic Bordeaux, it never really opened to reveal much fruit. Could have been a bit past prime but all that was left was the terroir.
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A great example of a classic bordeaux in a not so stellar vintage. Good colour beginning to show some red brick underneath, classic nose with tobacco, leather and still some red fruit, elegant on the palate, not a blockbuster by any means but with surprising length. Great value.
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Pleine maturité, excellent vin, fruits rouge, gras et opulence, final alcoolique. Bonne mâche, acidité et tannins résorbés. Nez admirablement nuancé, cassis et cherry. Son caractère de Paillac est nettement marqué.
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The cork came out cleanly from this 19 year old bottle. I did a filtered decant but found very little sediment. I waited 15 minutes before trying. Surprised and delighted to find this wine doing so well after all these years.
The nose was beautiful , spicy red fruit, buttered nuts, vanilla and more. Not a hint of funk.
On the pallet it starts with black currant , tobacco, cedar and minerality on the mid pallet, medium dry finish of pepper & other black spices, There was still enough acid to brighten the flavors. The tannins are soft but still present. I think it will still go 2 or 3 more years but it is close to the end. Still enjoyable but starting to fade.
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Oh Pauillac! why do I love you so much? Is it your powerful yet sleek delivery? Is it the elegance with which you flow? Is it the softness of your touch? I don't know. All I know is every time we meet, I fall in love again. And when you leave, you leave me longing for more. Until next time!
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Very nice if perhaps a bit more mature than expected for it's age. Perfect with cornish game hens with mushroom gravy. Worth purchasing if the price is right.
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Until 15 minutes after opening strong and hard tanins , cedar,coffee, ... like 10 years old - afterwards like 30 years old and thin - but 2 h later it rounds up to an well aged beautiful Pauilac with leather, herbs and a bit sweetness
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This is my third go around with this wine, and this was the best showing. However, that's not saying much as this bottle isn't swinging for the fences. Dark maroon color. Medium thick legs. On the nose there's mint, eucalyptus, damp earth and a little baking spices in the background. The intial palate has some body, but the fruit seems tired and maybe even a bit oxidized. There's nice presence on the mid and back palate. This tasting note is very similar to earlier notes. Everything seems to indicate the raw material comes from good stock, but it just wasn't a good year.
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Felt like I opened it 4-5 years too late. Bricking on the edges, pencil box and cedar nose, strong tobacco and leather notes but the fruit failed to show up over five hours of decant. Traces of the flavors hinted at a decent wine in 2005. Oh well, still enjoyable.
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No formal notes. Drank several weeks ago with friends from out of town. This bottle was a nightcap after many (many) other wines. Didn't give it the time or consideration it probably needed to shine. However, after looking at my earlier notes perhaps that wasn't going to happen
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initial nose was sweet floral, then pencil shavings, solid core bricking around edges, decent length finish, herbs and unripened fruit fruit or maybe it is some type of bitter peel/bark
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Good dark garnet color. No bricking, but a little thin on the edges. Nose is quite strong with casis, pencil shavings and menthol. Unfortunately the fruit on the nose doesn't carry through to the palate. After a one hour decant, there's no fruit but a lot of structure: tanins and acid. Everything is concentrated in the midpalate, no high notes or low notes. Very thin finish. There is a small amount of Pauillac cedarwood and pencil shavings but nothing ovewhelming. I know '94 was a challenging year, but according to the critics this bottle was supposed to really shine: underwhelming.
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Decanted and served very soon thereafter--maybe 15 minutes--and consumed over the course of less than two hours. Really attractive wine, correct, integrated, and elegant with layers of tobacco, leather (lots of leather), cedar, leather, some minerality, tiny touches of dried currant and prune (very subtle), and some more leather. Towards the end a really neat herbal flavor emerged, mirroring the rosemary flavors from the meal. Very elegant if not terribly distinctive, and great with a simple dinner of roasted chcken with roasted potatoes and haricots verts. An even better pairing with good friends celebrating their engagement.
I would estimate this is unlikely to improve further but that's ok with me as drinking it now is certainly no hardship. I wouldn't think it's going to decline radically any time soon though, either.
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medium garnet. Nose was closed, but slowly opened to reveal hints of tobacco, seasoned salt. Taste was acid galore, with the tobacco hints in the background. Drink up!
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This wine took some time to open up. Once opened it was a traditional Pauillac through and through. Finish was somewhat lacking but it was a solid wine.
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Somewhat "closed" after initial pour. Never really opened up the first evening. Day two was much better with layers of fruit and tannins well integrated. My feeling though is that you can get wines this good that are a better value, and ready to drink upon release. This bottle is certainly not in the same class as Pichon Lalande and Insignia (2 of my favorites) are after 11 years.
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Another satisfying bottle of this tonight. Can't ask for more in a 5th Growth, lesser Vintage wine. Great raspberry/plum, sweet/tart cherry spice, leather, chestnut, lead pencil. Smooth and complex enough....classic dry cedar, tobacco, earth, cinnamon spice. A little drying, but still juicy. Nice!
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Again at Blayne & Sharon's in Whistler. This is a very nice and mature drinking bottle of Claret. The nose shows some rust, iodine and cedar, smelling a little old. The palate though is ripe and round, fully mature, with nice waves of sweet black currant delivered on a medium frame. This is perfectly enjoyable and at a great time to drink.
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2/24/2024 - ShakenNotStirred wrote: 92 Points
Dark red, with very little sediment. Still lots of fruit, balanced, big and delicious. Expected it to be tired, but this bottle was in great shape.
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9/5/2023 - olioli wrote: 90 Points
Bien conservé. Frank a callé Clerc-Milon 2004!
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2/28/2023 - ATL wrote:
Still fruity and somewhat flabby, at least side by side with 1966 Labegorce. Likely to improve.
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12/1/2022 - chatters wrote:
Coravin fun - 1994 Bordeaux and supps (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. On the nose it shows pyrazine, cream, brambles, blackcurrant, slight oaky notes and a little cassis, a little blood/iron and, with time, a meaty underpin. Juicy, fleshy, dark hued fruits, slightly chalky tannins, slight leather though I find this quite youthful, fair lick of oak on the palate, very nice.
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8/8/2019 - europat55 wrote: 90 Points
Nose: B++/A- Palate: B+/B++
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8/3/2019 - Whine-oh wrote: 91 Points
SlowOed at rest. No formal decant. Cork intact, min sed. Typical nose n palate for this 25 yo Bordeaux. Soft mouthfeel. Nice and in a good place tonight. Tasted youthful in comparison to the 64’ Cos that we also drank, it was in a good place as well. Cheers to Bordeaux.
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6/1/2019 - Downeaster wrote:
Should have had it years ago.
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1/21/2018 - Derek Miami wrote:
Well balanced classic Bordeaux. Opened well and opened nicely over the next several hours after decanting
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8/14/2016 - bgrimm Likes this wine: 90 Points
Probably a bit over prime. Still very typical Cabernet (Franc) nose, very elegant with still present tannins and acid. More Burgundy than Bordeaux now.
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2/13/2015 - Lype wrote: 88 Points
No formal notes, not the strongest vintage for CM as one might expect.
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12/25/2014 - wconnolly wrote: 84 Points
A bit past prime although it was not apparent from the color. Nice medium garnet with a touch of bricking. While this was classic Bordeaux, it never really opened to reveal much fruit. Could have been a bit past prime but all that was left was the terroir.
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9/24/2014 - jfont123 wrote:
The vegetal notes from the vintage was showing in this bottle. Very different from my other bottle. Maybe bottle variation
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8/4/2014 - chevalblanc1959 Likes this wine: 90 Points
A great example of a classic bordeaux in a not so stellar vintage. Good colour beginning to show some red brick underneath, classic nose with tobacco, leather and still some red fruit, elegant on the palate, not a blockbuster by any means but with surprising length. Great value.
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10/19/2013 - LFCHALA wrote: 90 Points
Mature. Complex aromas. Cassis. Need an hour aeration. Very pleased who was not used to aged wines.
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8/30/2013 - DLeeds wrote: 88 Points
Very good bottle, still a very nice drinking wine.
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7/12/2013 - meqoubal36 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Pleine maturité, excellent vin, fruits rouge, gras et opulence, final alcoolique. Bonne mâche, acidité et tannins résorbés. Nez admirablement nuancé, cassis et cherry. Son caractère de Paillac est nettement marqué.
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5/8/2013 - Nike-Raider Likes this wine: 88 Points
The cork came out cleanly from this 19 year old bottle. I did a filtered decant but found very little sediment. I waited 15 minutes before trying. Surprised and delighted to find this wine doing so well after all these years.
The nose was beautiful , spicy red fruit, buttered nuts, vanilla and more. Not a hint of funk.
On the pallet it starts with black currant , tobacco, cedar and minerality on the mid pallet, medium dry finish of pepper & other black spices, There was still enough acid to brighten the flavors. The tannins are soft but still present. I think it will still go 2 or 3 more years but it is close to the end. Still enjoyable but starting to fade.
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4/23/2013 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 90 Points
Oh Pauillac! why do I love you so much? Is it your powerful yet sleek delivery? Is it the elegance with which you flow? Is it the softness of your touch? I don't know. All I know is every time we meet, I fall in love again. And when you leave, you leave me longing for more. Until next time!
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1/13/2013 - ATL Likes this wine:
Very nice if perhaps a bit more mature than expected for it's age. Perfect with cornish game hens with mushroom gravy. Worth purchasing if the price is right.
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1/6/2013 - huntingtom Likes this wine: 89 Points
0.75 Bottle, decanted 90min in carafe
N: dark chocolate, earth, pepper
T: Cherry, Sweet, mature tannins fully integrated, full-bodied
C: dark red, light orange glow on the edge
Drunk together with 2003 - very different styles
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9/21/2012 - huntingtom wrote: 89 Points
Until 15 minutes after opening strong and hard tanins , cedar,coffee, ... like 10 years old - afterwards like 30 years old and thin - but 2 h later it rounds up to an well aged beautiful Pauilac with leather, herbs and a bit sweetness
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3/8/2012 - oldgrowth45 wrote:
This is my third go around with this wine, and this was the best showing. However, that's not saying much as this bottle isn't swinging for the fences. Dark maroon color. Medium thick legs. On the nose there's mint, eucalyptus, damp earth and a little baking spices in the background. The intial palate has some body, but the fruit seems tired and maybe even a bit oxidized. There's nice presence on the mid and back palate. This tasting note is very similar to earlier notes. Everything seems to indicate the raw material comes from good stock, but it just wasn't a good year.
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1/14/2012 - monahanchris wrote: 87 Points
Felt like I opened it 4-5 years too late. Bricking on the edges, pencil box and cedar nose, strong tobacco and leather notes but the fruit failed to show up over five hours of decant. Traces of the flavors hinted at a decent wine in 2005. Oh well, still enjoyable.
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1/1/2012 - jliu1680 wrote: 80 Points
flat aroma, should drink earier to keep it fresh tannin.
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12/18/2011 - oldgrowth45 wrote:
No formal notes. Drank several weeks ago with friends from out of town. This bottle was a nightcap after many (many) other wines. Didn't give it the time or consideration it probably needed to shine. However, after looking at my earlier notes perhaps that wasn't going to happen
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12/29/2010 - Rick-again wrote: 88 Points
initial nose was sweet floral, then pencil shavings, solid core bricking around edges, decent length finish, herbs and unripened fruit fruit or maybe it is some type of bitter peel/bark
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11/1/2009 - oldgrowth45 wrote: 85 Points
Good dark garnet color. No bricking, but a little thin on the edges. Nose is quite strong with casis, pencil shavings and menthol. Unfortunately the fruit on the nose doesn't carry through to the palate. After a one hour decant, there's no fruit but a lot of structure: tanins and acid. Everything is concentrated in the midpalate, no high notes or low notes. Very thin finish. There is a small amount of Pauillac cedarwood and pencil shavings but nothing ovewhelming. I know '94 was a challenging year, but according to the critics this bottle was supposed to really shine: underwhelming.
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6/28/2009 - Mark wrote: 84 Points
This bottle didn't work for me at all. Very tannic, austre, acidic and harsh. Unchanged from open and for 4 hours.
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6/12/2009 - thirtyoneknots wrote:
Decanted and served very soon thereafter--maybe 15 minutes--and consumed over the course of less than two hours. Really attractive wine, correct, integrated, and elegant with layers of tobacco, leather (lots of leather), cedar, leather, some minerality, tiny touches of dried currant and prune (very subtle), and some more leather. Towards the end a really neat herbal flavor emerged, mirroring the rosemary flavors from the meal. Very elegant if not terribly distinctive, and great with a simple dinner of roasted chcken with roasted potatoes and haricots verts. An even better pairing with good friends celebrating their engagement.
I would estimate this is unlikely to improve further but that's ok with me as drinking it now is certainly no hardship. I wouldn't think it's going to decline radically any time soon though, either.
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5/26/2009 - Harry Cantrell wrote: 84 Points
medium garnet. Nose was closed, but slowly opened to reveal hints of tobacco, seasoned salt. Taste was acid galore, with the tobacco hints in the background. Drink up!
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4/22/2009 - RBurgundy wrote: 90 Points
This wine took some time to open up. Once opened it was a traditional Pauillac through and through. Finish was somewhat lacking but it was a solid wine.
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9/9/2008 - winemaker wrote: 89 Points
Pretty decent. Fleshed out with air. Subtle next to a Cali cab, but enjoyablel with food. Better than expected.
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10/25/2007 - Bromie wrote: 84 Points
Pleasant but nothing special. Will still last some time.
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12/1/2006 - NealN wrote: 86 Points
Bright purple-red with light strawberry nose. Medium body with low fruit and low acid. Nothing very distinctive.
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3/18/2006 - jjoyce wrote: 89 Points
Somewhat "closed" after initial pour. Never really opened up the first evening. Day two was much better with layers of fruit and tannins well integrated. My feeling though is that you can get wines this good that are a better value, and ready to drink upon release. This bottle is certainly not in the same class as Pichon Lalande and Insignia (2 of my favorites) are after 11 years.
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1/11/2006 - Mrbuzz wrote: 93 Points
Another satisfying bottle of this tonight. Can't ask for more in a 5th Growth, lesser Vintage wine. Great raspberry/plum, sweet/tart cherry spice, leather, chestnut, lead pencil. Smooth and complex enough....classic dry cedar, tobacco, earth, cinnamon spice. A little drying, but still juicy. Nice!
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12/21/2005 - Eric wrote: 88 Points
Again at Blayne & Sharon's in Whistler. This is a very nice and mature drinking bottle of Claret. The nose shows some rust, iodine and cedar, smelling a little old. The palate though is ripe and round, fully mature, with nice waves of sweet black currant delivered on a medium frame. This is perfectly enjoyable and at a great time to drink.
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12/22/2002 - Eric wrote:
Had at Blayne & Sharon's in Whistler. Austere, somewhat closed.
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1/6/2002 - jusuf Does not like this wine: 84 Points
Lots of pepper on the nose, some earth but little else. Flavour with red berries soft but without suplèsse. Unimaginative finish. Disappointing.
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