Three our decant and still shy at the beginning. Opened up more after a couple of hours. Still quite youthful for an 05 with lots of notes of fresh fruit - cassis and blackberry - and some herbaceous and floral notes. The use of new oak is evident but not overbearing. Vanilla and chocolate stand out. Some tertiary notes emerging, leather, bacon, a bit of forest floor and a fair amount of blackberry jam. Chalky tannins that can still soften but which are not too overbearing. Overall, though this wine will likely continue to develop nicely, it doesn't have the underlying intensity to have a long-lived maturity. Peak drinking, with a rapid decline to follow, likely in the next 5-7 years.
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Ten Vintages Haut Bailly vs Mission HB: Preamble: All wines tasted blind in 10 vintage flights (1994-2015). To every flight one random third wine from Pessac Leognan added (2x Haut Brion, 2x Smith, 2x Pape Clement, 1x Branon, 1x Luchy Halde, 1x Carmes, 1x Chevalier). All wines opened a few hours before consumption but no decanting.
Some findings: 1) Haut Bailly outperformed Mission (5 vs 4 wins, 92.5 vs 90.5 average). 2) Haut Bailly is a rather structured wine which seems to shine bright in ripe and warm vintages, without any form of excess ripeness or extraction. 3) When done right (05/15), Mission eclipses Haut Bailly with its depth and delineation , but several vintages showed a bit too ripe but especially with the alcohol not well masked (09/10). 4) Pessac wines usually need quite some air to open up. In this setting (no decanting), most wines needed a lot of swirling to fully open up and will need more cellar time. 5) The best wines today were Haut Bailly 09 (96pts) & 10 (95pts) and Mission 05 & 15 (95pts).
TN: Medium expressive nose, green bell pepper, minerality but no charm, not enough fruit. Better on the palate with red and dark red fruit, some coffee notes, some blue fruit, herbs and minerality. Overall a bit light and quite short but with fairly fine tannins, high but well-integrated acidity and good finesse and balance. This is a very solid wine with a beautiful aromatic expression on the attack as the highlight. In this flight it could not compete with the fabolous Mission.
Decanting: 1-2 hours should help to open it up.
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Purchased as futures and stored at 55 degrees. Decanted 45 minutes ahead. Classic Graves with scorched earth and black fruits on the nose. Plenty of earth, tobacco and graphite along with blackberry and cassis on the palate. The wine evolved more than a 2003 Calon Segur and 2000 Leoville Barton over the course of several hours but still had a nice tannin/acid balance. I will drink my remaining 2 over the next 5-7 years..93 points
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Gorgeous Bordeaux drinking well. Still relatively young, but hard to imagine it any better in the future. 1.5 hour decant seemed just right. red fruit forward with lush cherries dominating the palate and nose. Just a touch of barnyard on the bouquet and plenty of tertiary flavors blending in harmony. I didn't log what I paid for this but it has to be a real bargain.
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Pnp. Still bright in the glass with a nose of tobacco leaf. Leisurely enjoyed over 2.5 hours, and a good wine to have with food. The lushness faded later and the finish sharpened a bit. Still a very nice wine, paid $80 and it doesn’t quite meet its price....
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Amazing wine. Highly concentrated and extracted, not your typical bordeaux. Somewhat vegetal and I got a LOT of green pepers. The wine is extremely similar to a Don Melchor from Chile. Not your typical Bordeaux but also you will never think its a Napa blend. I loved the wine and I think that it is close to its peak. Very elegant
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Coravined a glass last night. Needed about 2 hours to open then was in a perfect spot. No rush here but with a proper decant you will be well rewarded.
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Very much the same notes as 6 years ago. The tanning softened nicely even though you can still feel it. The same fruit is still there to balance the weight and tannin. Very enjoyable and balanced. Loved to see it evolved the way I expected it to. A great wine in the making. It shall still get better from here.
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Round, lush, fleshy, full and loaded with smoky, dark red fruits, coffee and smoke. The deep colored wine remains youthful. But the fruit is so ripe and the tannins are so soft, you can enjoy this now, or wait another 3-5 years.
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This was fabulous.opened this with first grilled steaks of the season. I believe at peak but with legs to go many more years. Beautiful dark ruby red with immediate fragrance right out of the bottle. Dark berry and cassis mixed with cedar and leather. Wonderful to inhale before drinking. On the palate rich and dense flavor with the berries and cassis coming through first then the more herbal and earthy notes. A very distinct but not overpowering cedar made this a special pleasure for me. I’ve been drinking it for 3 days (yes extraordinary patience!) and its held up great. Looking forward to a couple more bottles in the future.
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From double magnum. Wet leather is the highlight of this lovely 2005 Bordeaux served for Thanksgiving dinner. Pleased a crowd of seven and we were ready for more. Showing beautifully and just what you'd hope for from an adolescent left-bank Bordeaux.
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A high quality Bordeaux with a modern style. I cannot dispute the quality of the wine but I often did not taste the Pessac Leognan flavors I was expecting. Tastes more like a Napa bdx style blend which isn’t a bad thing but not what I was expecting.
This wine’s a burden. Highly extracted, but still a little vegetal. Heavy, like syrup. Has only gotten more concentrated with age, which was not what I’d hoped. Glad to be finishing this case.
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After a short decant, expressive nose of barnyard, dark fruit, earth. The palate cannot fully follow up on the fruity nose and shows the rougher tannins of the dry summer. Still good. Decant for 1h before drinking this and go with meat.
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Regular dinner group (By JvT @ Fitzgerald): Extremely dark and concentrated color. In the bouquet and on the palate dark berries. Green bell pepper, a lot of acidity and tannin. The tannin is ripe but also a bit green, so this wine probably has a long future. It is a beauty already. 94++
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Was the consensus WOTN. Big Big wine that took almost 4 hours in a decanter to fully open up. Nose was like a wet forest of cedar tree and fresh beef with hte palate showing smoked black ripe cherries with herbaceous dark chocolate finish that kept going.
Still fairly young and has a decade left easily.
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Man, this was great! Bought this years ago and will look to buy more. Still on the young side but not shut down at all. Cigar / dark fruit / smoke / wet cement on the nose. Full bodied on the palate with a little green coming through (but not in a bad way at all.) Tannins very prevalent on the finish but not harsh at all. Acidity on point. Makes for a very well made and well -balanced wine. This easily has 10 years life left on it. Still feels young and primary almost but not overly so. In a great spot and will be for a long time.
An Exceptional Afternoon (at JM): This wine didn't impress me that much; one-dimensional. Possibly in a closed phase for now? Young, rich and powerful on the palate with Asian spices, black cherries, ripe dark fruits.
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Very dark, purple and opaque. Nose shows toasted oak, meat, and dark fruit. Big shoulders with this wine as the tannins are very aggressive. There's a green note which I thought might be stems but seems it was the cab franc. It had charcoal and dill finish. Joked it might be Silver Oak. This should age for ever.
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Second time I have had this in the past couple years, I seemed to really appreciate it better now. Served blind, the aromatic really threw me off as it had a clove/dill note that made me think new wood. But, when diving into the fruit flavors, it seemed very much like Bordeaux, with the smooth, dark iron notes, black cherry, cedar and some of the cool green notes that come through Cab Franc. This was super and still for me drinking quite young but the marriage of the Merlot and Cab Franc, the depth and color really made this terrific. It did evolve in the glass and the aromatic initially seemed to fade out when I re-tasted it at the end of dinner.
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Nose of cigar box, Sumatra coffee, ripe black cherry fruit, with hints of gravel after a summer shower, tar, sandalwood, and tar, more of the same on the palate, mouth coating, almost elegant, very rich and almost thick on the mid palate, big body, long finish.
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Fat, rich, dense and lush, with a lot of concentration, smoke, ripe, dark fruits, espresso and earth. The wine coats your palate with fruit. Low in acid, it's almost too much of a good thing. This is quite young and will only get better with more time in the cellar.
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Nose of blackberry, cassis, chocolate, pencil lead, and red cherry, more of the same on the palate, medium/big body, delicious with nachos and cheese and chicken burrito, long, long, long finish and flavorful aftertaste.
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Enjoyed this. I own zero Bdx but I find I do enjoy it when I drink it these days. Poured blind, this had Bdx aromatics. Spice box, even a light dill note. Black cherry fruit, juicy and crunchy.
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Book Club - old world (Maro Grill, Laguna Beach): Blind - guessed right bank merlot. Oh so close... Got the merlot and thought there might be some Cabernet franc so I turned right instead of left.
Excellent nose. I was dried shiitake mushrooms and moss, loved playing with it. Very dark color. Licorice and anise notes and edgy tannins. Long sweet oak finish.
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Still tight and tannin is very evident. However the notes on the nose is really beautiful, blueberry mixed with black fruit, lots of cedar, pencil shaving, and cigar box. the finish is long with tannin coating the mouth. No doubt this wine is turning into a magnificent wine. Opening it now may be a bit too early though still accessible and enjoyable.
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Nothing special at all. Maybe its because my friends and I enjoy much more the "new world" wines, but this wine is goodish, but really nothing spectacular at the moment. Have 5 more in the cellar, will wait 2 years for the next bottle.
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Very dark and opaque color. Nose is perfumy with fresh blackberry. The wine shows black fruits - currant, cherry and blackberry - in the mouth. The fruit is very dense and almost sweet. There is the pencil lead or graphite thing going on. The wine is medium in weight, but it is very dense and compact. Doesn't reveal the elegance and seamlessness that I suspect will develop over time. I've had it open for an hour in a decanter and it really hasn't budged. This wine needs a lot of time/air to open up. I'm guessing it is going to be a beauty once it does, but for tonight at least, it is tight. Still pleasurable now, but no where near its potential. I would like to see this 20 years from now.
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With its deep ruby color, this scarce wine offers a nose of black raspberry, coffee, earth, smoker and fresh herbs. This supple wine is concentrated with juicy, ripe fruit and spice. Produced in a sexy, ripe style, the wine finishes with chocolate covered berries. This is a polished and opulent Bordeaux. Only 500 cases are produced.
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12/16/2022 - Octavio_91 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Three our decant and still shy at the beginning. Opened up more after a couple of hours.
Still quite youthful for an 05 with lots of notes of fresh fruit - cassis and blackberry - and some herbaceous and floral notes.
The use of new oak is evident but not overbearing. Vanilla and chocolate stand out.
Some tertiary notes emerging, leather, bacon, a bit of forest floor and a fair amount of blackberry jam.
Chalky tannins that can still soften but which are not too overbearing.
Overall, though this wine will likely continue to develop nicely, it doesn't have the underlying intensity to have a long-lived maturity. Peak drinking, with a rapid decline to follow, likely in the next 5-7 years.
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11/23/2022 - Cailles wrote: 92 Points
Ten Vintages Haut Bailly vs Mission HB: Preamble: All wines tasted blind in 10 vintage flights (1994-2015). To every flight one random third wine from Pessac Leognan added (2x Haut Brion, 2x Smith, 2x Pape Clement, 1x Branon, 1x Luchy Halde, 1x Carmes, 1x Chevalier). All wines opened a few hours before consumption but no decanting.
Some findings:
1) Haut Bailly outperformed Mission (5 vs 4 wins, 92.5 vs 90.5 average). 2) Haut Bailly is a rather structured wine which seems to shine bright in ripe and warm vintages, without any form of excess ripeness or extraction. 3) When done right (05/15), Mission eclipses Haut Bailly with its depth and delineation , but several vintages showed a bit too ripe but especially with the alcohol not well masked (09/10). 4) Pessac wines usually need quite some air to open up. In this setting (no decanting), most wines needed a lot of swirling to fully open up and will need more cellar time. 5) The best wines today were Haut Bailly 09 (96pts) & 10 (95pts) and Mission 05 & 15 (95pts).
TN: Medium expressive nose, green bell pepper, minerality but no charm, not enough fruit. Better on the palate with red and dark red fruit, some coffee notes, some blue fruit, herbs and minerality. Overall a bit light and quite short but with fairly fine tannins, high but well-integrated acidity and good finesse and balance. This is a very solid wine with a beautiful aromatic expression on the attack as the highlight. In this flight it could not compete with the fabolous Mission.
Decanting: 1-2 hours should help to open it up.
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7/17/2022 - pakabear Likes this wine: 92 Points
Still quite tannic, could use another 5-10 years but was drinakable now with a 2 hour decant and some aeration.
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6/30/2022 - sastewart wrote: 93 Points
Purchased as futures and stored at 55 degrees. Decanted 45 minutes ahead. Classic Graves with scorched earth and black fruits on the nose. Plenty of earth, tobacco and graphite along with blackberry and cassis on the palate. The wine evolved more than a 2003 Calon Segur and 2000 Leoville Barton over the course of several hours but still had a nice tannin/acid balance. I will drink my remaining 2 over the next 5-7 years..93 points
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2/13/2022 - Tannic Monster Likes this wine: 94 Points
Gorgeous Bordeaux drinking well. Still relatively young, but hard to imagine it any better in the future. 1.5 hour decant seemed just right. red fruit forward with lush cherries dominating the palate and nose. Just a touch of barnyard on the bouquet and plenty of tertiary flavors blending in harmony. I didn't log what I paid for this but it has to be a real bargain.
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1/25/2022 - gtonn Likes this wine: 91 Points
Vibrant, bright. Drinking very well
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12/10/2020 - BradA Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pnp. Still bright in the glass with a nose of tobacco leaf. Leisurely enjoyed over 2.5 hours, and a good wine to have with food. The lushness faded later and the finish sharpened a bit. Still a very nice wine, paid $80 and it doesn’t quite meet its price....
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11/18/2020 - wren460 wrote: 93 Points
Amazing wine. Highly concentrated and extracted, not your typical bordeaux. Somewhat vegetal and I got a LOT of green pepers. The wine is extremely similar to a Don Melchor from Chile. Not your typical Bordeaux but also you will never think its a Napa blend. I loved the wine and I think that it is close to its peak. Very elegant
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9/7/2020 - davidsm Likes this wine: 93 Points
Coravined a glass last night. Needed about 2 hours to open then was in a perfect spot. No rush here but with a proper decant you will be well rewarded.
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8/1/2020 - overkloud Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very much the same notes as 6 years ago. The tanning softened nicely even though you can still feel it. The same fruit is still there to balance the weight and tannin. Very enjoyable and balanced. Loved to see it evolved the way I expected it to. A great wine in the making. It shall still get better from here.
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12/25/2019 - up4wine wrote: 92 Points
Had with Lamb, which was a nice pairing. The son gave it a 91.
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10/14/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points
Round, lush, fleshy, full and loaded with smoky, dark red fruits, coffee and smoke. The deep colored wine remains youthful. But the fruit is so ripe and the tannins are so soft, you can enjoy this now, or wait another 3-5 years.
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3/30/2019 - NickP Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was fabulous.opened this with first grilled steaks of the season. I believe at peak but with legs to go many more years. Beautiful dark ruby red with immediate fragrance right out of the bottle. Dark berry and cassis mixed with cedar and leather. Wonderful to inhale before drinking. On the palate rich and dense flavor with the berries and cassis coming through first then the more herbal and earthy notes. A very distinct but not overpowering cedar made this a special pleasure for me. I’ve been drinking it for 3 days (yes extraordinary patience!) and its held up great. Looking forward to a couple more bottles in the future.
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11/22/2018 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 93 Points
From double magnum. Wet leather is the highlight of this lovely 2005 Bordeaux served for Thanksgiving dinner. Pleased a crowd of seven and we were ready for more. Showing beautifully and just what you'd hope for from an adolescent left-bank Bordeaux.
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9/25/2018 - UFGators wrote:
A way better showing. Wine is lush with the classic Pessac Léognan smoke and tobacco. Concentrated and silky tanins. 94-95
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8/26/2018 - NickP wrote: 90 Points
Excellent Bordeaux ready to drink. Wonderful with steak
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8/25/2018 - UFGators Likes this wine: 93 Points
A high quality Bordeaux with a modern style. I cannot dispute the quality of the wine but I often did not taste the Pessac Leognan flavors I was expecting. Tastes more like a Napa bdx style blend which isn’t a bad thing but not what I was expecting.
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3/9/2018 - Martin Amis Does not like this wine:
This wine’s a burden. Highly extracted, but still a little vegetal. Heavy, like syrup. Has only gotten more concentrated with age, which was not what I’d hoped. Glad to be finishing this case.
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12/9/2017 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points
After a short decant, expressive nose of barnyard, dark fruit, earth. The palate cannot fully follow up on the fruity nose and shows the rougher tannins of the dry summer. Still good. Decant for 1h before drinking this and go with meat.
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12/3/2017 - otessler Likes this wine: 94 Points
Great now. Had with Tenderloin tips. Well integrated. Guess you can wait a bit longer but don't really need to.
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10/7/2017 - Zweder wrote: 94 Points
Regular dinner group (By JvT @ Fitzgerald): Extremely dark and concentrated color. In the bouquet and on the palate dark berries. Green bell pepper, a lot of acidity and tannin. The tannin is ripe but also a bit green, so this wine probably has a long future. It is a beauty already. 94++
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5/7/2017 - gtonn Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark red fruit with notes of cedar, tobacco and a bit of barnyard. Medium finish. Still young.
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1/24/2017 - gtonn Likes this wine: 93 Points
Cedar, leather, graphite on the nose. Softening tannins. Long finish
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11/7/2016 - J3r0me H@n Likes this wine: 94 Points
Was the consensus WOTN. Big Big wine that took almost 4 hours in a decanter to fully open up. Nose was like a wet forest of cedar tree and fresh beef with hte palate showing smoked black ripe cherries with herbaceous dark chocolate finish that kept going.
Still fairly young and has a decade left easily.
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11/6/2016 - yonster24 wrote:
Man, this was great! Bought this years ago and will look to buy more. Still on the young side but not shut down at all. Cigar / dark fruit / smoke / wet cement on the nose. Full bodied on the palate with a little green coming through (but not in a bad way at all.) Tannins very prevalent on the finish but not harsh at all. Acidity on point. Makes for a very well made and well -balanced wine. This easily has 10 years life left on it. Still feels young and primary almost but not overly so. In a great spot and will be for a long time.
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11/4/2016 - Ary wrote:
An Exceptional Afternoon (at JM): This wine didn't impress me that much; one-dimensional. Possibly in a closed phase for now? Young, rich and powerful on the palate with Asian spices, black cherries, ripe dark fruits.
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9/1/2016 - pakabear Likes this wine: 92 Points
Cherry, dirt, cassis, chewy tannins, exotic spices and background cigar box. Very nice overall, needs another 6-7 years.
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7/25/2015 - brigcampbell wrote:
Book Club (The Winery, Newport Beach, CA): Blind. Guessed California Cabernet. Buzz!!
Very dark, purple and opaque. Nose shows toasted oak, meat, and dark fruit. Big shoulders with this wine as the tannins are very aggressive. There's a green note which I thought might be stems but seems it was the cab franc. It had charcoal and dill finish. Joked it might be Silver Oak. This should age for ever.
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7/25/2015 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Second time I have had this in the past couple years, I seemed to really appreciate it better now. Served blind, the aromatic really threw me off as it had a clove/dill note that made me think new wood. But, when diving into the fruit flavors, it seemed very much like Bordeaux, with the smooth, dark iron notes, black cherry, cedar and some of the cool green notes that come through Cab Franc. This was super and still for me drinking quite young but the marriage of the Merlot and Cab Franc, the depth and color really made this terrific. It did evolve in the glass and the aromatic initially seemed to fade out when I re-tasted it at the end of dinner.
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7/9/2015 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 95 Points
Nose of cigar box, Sumatra coffee, ripe black cherry fruit, with hints of gravel after a summer shower, tar, sandalwood, and tar, more of the same on the palate, mouth coating, almost elegant, very rich and almost thick on the mid palate, big body, long finish.
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6/28/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
Fat, rich, dense and lush, with a lot of concentration, smoke, ripe, dark fruits, espresso and earth. The wine coats your palate with fruit. Low in acid, it's almost too much of a good thing. This is quite young and will only get better with more time in the cellar.
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5/24/2015 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 94 Points
Nose of blackberry, cassis, chocolate, pencil lead, and red cherry, more of the same on the palate, medium/big body, delicious with nachos and cheese and chicken burrito, long, long, long finish and flavorful aftertaste.
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8/12/2014 - wren460 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very good wine. Subtle wine
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3/28/2014 - Frank Murray III wrote:
Enjoyed this. I own zero Bdx but I find I do enjoy it when I drink it these days. Poured blind, this had Bdx aromatics. Spice box, even a light dill note. Black cherry fruit, juicy and crunchy.
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3/27/2014 - pakabear wrote: flawed
Corked, huge disappointment…
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3/27/2014 - brigcampbell wrote:
Book Club - old world (Maro Grill, Laguna Beach): Blind - guessed right bank merlot. Oh so close... Got the merlot and thought there might be some Cabernet franc so I turned right instead of left.
Excellent nose. I was dried shiitake mushrooms and moss, loved playing with it. Very dark color. Licorice and anise notes and edgy tannins. Long sweet oak finish.
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3/21/2014 - overkloud Likes this wine: 95 Points
Still tight and tannin is very evident. However the notes on the nose is really beautiful, blueberry mixed with black fruit, lots of cedar, pencil shaving, and cigar box. the finish is long with tannin coating the mouth. No doubt this wine is turning into a magnificent wine. Opening it now may be a bit too early though still accessible and enjoyable.
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4/17/2011 - wren460 wrote: 90 Points
Nothing special at all. Maybe its because my friends and I enjoy much more the "new world" wines, but this wine is goodish, but really nothing spectacular at the moment. Have 5 more in the cellar, will wait 2 years for the next bottle.
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12/25/2010 - NAA2586 wrote: 89 Points
Disappointing lack of flavor concentration.
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2/24/2009 - Jay A wrote: 92 Points
Very dark and opaque color. Nose is perfumy with fresh blackberry. The wine shows black fruits - currant, cherry and blackberry - in the mouth. The fruit is very dense and almost sweet. There is the pencil lead or graphite thing going on. The wine is medium in weight, but it is very dense and compact. Doesn't reveal the elegance and seamlessness that I suspect will develop over time. I've had it open for an hour in a decanter and it really hasn't budged. This wine needs a lot of time/air to open up. I'm guessing it is going to be a beauty once it does, but for tonight at least, it is tight. Still pleasurable now, but no where near its potential. I would like to see this 20 years from now.
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6/15/2008 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
With its deep ruby color, this scarce wine offers a nose of black raspberry, coffee, earth, smoker and fresh herbs. This supple wine is concentrated with juicy, ripe fruit and spice. Produced in a sexy, ripe style, the wine finishes with chocolate covered berries. This is a polished and opulent Bordeaux. Only 500 cases are produced.
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