One for the hedonists. This poured an opaque purple with no signs of age. Dark aromatic profile of blackberry liqueur, fig, creosote, tar, iron and a hint of sweetness later emerging with air. A full, plush mouthful of dark plummy fruit with mouthwatering acidity pulling it all together. Most of the action here was on the front to mid palate. Some tannic grip on the finish. This shows quite young still with a lot of primary fruit. Absolutely delicious and I suspect it has a long runway and further upside ahead.
The 08 Trotanoy was rich and tightly coiled. Lots of underlying substance but it still needs plenty of time to fully unfold. It needs a long decant if you must consume now.
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Taken to a BBQ. My last bottle. Classic soft merlot berries with hints of green tobacco and camphor. Some Lafleur-like mulberry. Drink now with air or feels this would be even better in a few years. Lovely texture already though. 93-94
Rich plummy red fruited with a rich seamless nearly lush mouth coating texture, came across young and yummy, perhaps still in need of some more nuance, but a drinking great.
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Bottle 3/6. Decanted an hour ahead and was just opening as we sat down. This bottle was a little less hedonistic and a little more classic than others recently. Pipe tobacco, hint of emerging leather, morelo cherry, medium to long finish. Don’t remember this vintage’s blend but the cabernet franc is coming out quite strongly at 15 years with some classic green notes. 94+
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Bottle 2/6 paired with Iberico pluma and red velvet cake for Mother’s Day! This was decanted for 2 hours and tasted of rich morelo cherry fruit, chocolate, satsuma and classic hints of green pepper/capsicum and leather. Got less pronounced but smoother and creamier then closed a bit at the 3 hour mark. Not an in-your-face vintage but classic and smooth. 94+/100
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Paired with Hare Pithvidier. Classic Pomerol. Mint and stem nose which became fruitier/earthier. Very giving palate of morelo cherry, blue and red fruit, mint chocolate and a 15 second finish of waves. Classy and elegant rather than blockbuster. In its early drinking window with plenty of hedonistic fruit and emerging tertiary notes of leather and stem. 95/100. At this stage decant for at least an hour as it was fully open towards the two hour mark.
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Decanted for an hour and drank over another hour. Nose dominated by fresh spearmint but also a bit of cedar, tobacco, funk and dried thyme. Palate is quite lean: cranberry, steak juices, and rosemary. Grippy tannins with medium acid. 30 second finish of dried cherry, mint and lavender. Very nice but at the price expected a bit more.
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At Manhatta NYC. Big menthol notes on the nose that mellowed out over the course of 1-2 hours. The fruit was bright, the mouthfeel a perfect roundedness, gritty tannins that are decently integrated but has room to go, a classic Pomerol polish and finesse on the finish. It got more integrated and velvety with air as the night went on. Clearly one of the triumphs of the vintage, this is good to go today but should hold for 5-10 more years at peak.
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Slow oxed overnight, beautiful nose, v young still with bold tannins, rich Pomerol nose, creamy & oaky, in the mouth biggish but not in sync still, try after 5 years but needs at least 10 years to reach peak, will be v good once ready 93-95
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Had next to a Giscours 09, which was quite classic in comparison. This wine is quite open, plush, and ripe with soft dark fruits. Two hour double decant prior. Tasted young and bold despite decant.
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Perfumed aromas of pretty violets, dark fruits and good ripeness. Deep rich long liquid flowers, popourri, soffit rich powerful. Really good, sexy. Velvety, voluptuous and deep. Long and rich. Very impressive, young, powerful and balanced. Just in early drinking window. Wow wine.
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Na 3 uur karaf - Glanzende donkerrobijnrode kleur - Neus van krachtig, vlezig rijp fruit, zwarte chocolade, kruiden en tikje sigaar - Vol en fluweelachtige textuur in de mond met frisse terugkomende lagen, zuren en tannines in harmonie, complex en elegant met nog heel wat potentieel - Lange afdronk met tonen van zachte chocolade - Nog jong !
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Truffles and a couple of bottles: Plum, graphite, red currant, ash - good aromatics and fragrance. Approachable even with the strong tannic firmness. Persistent with ultra classy fruit. Great to check in on this, but more time needed.
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This is not complely ready yet. Very good wine but will come together some more. Nose with ripe plum, blackberry and some oak. Powerful palate. Creamy, tasty, grippy, oaky. Hold for at least 3 years.
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Attractive bouquet, berries fruits, cedar, tar. Fine tannin and some level of acidity that provide freshness for the palate. Strong cellar potential. Unique evolution of the wine as time passes by.
Decant for about 2 hours.
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Dark plum, red liqorice, clove, aniseed. Delicious, rounded fruit flavor, nice freshness with medium+ acid. Carrying just a little heat on the finish. Needs time as it is still quite compact and youthful but should be delicious in another 5 years or so. A good find from the Systembolaget. Drank in Sweden on the eve of Dave’s wedding on an empty stomach while contemplating golf.
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Full bodied and packed to the gilled with layers of juicy, sweet, chocolate coated, black cherries and plums. Stubbornly hanging on to its youth, the wine is concentrated, long, round and tannic. There is freshness, purity and a wealth of fruits in the finish that move from black cherry, to sweet, deep plum effortlessly. This is going to age quite nicely.
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Another winner of this estate. Wonderful nose of dark fruit with some leather, smoke, black current, sweet spices. Elegant, polished tannins, refined, not as brooding as 2000 and 2010. A grand Pomerol start-to-finish. Early, decant or better wait another 5 years. 96+
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Occasional dinner group: Riesling GG and Top Pomerol (@ Zarzo): Beautiful, inviting and complex bouquet with dark berries, licorice, earth and autumn flavors. On the palate dark berries, licorice, good acidity and length. Round and powerful tannin. A real beauty with a great future.
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Starting with half bottle Coravin over 2h followed by cork removal due to private reasons. Dark red transparency with first signs of maturity. On start rubber nose, later dark fruits and some mint followed by a high density bouquet with iron fruit and loam. Long and very homogenous palate with just enough highly fine grained tannin. Two more bottles..drink until 2035 or so. CT average is 94,9 today, i agree....
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this is a great wine and i underrated it, getting better each time i taste it. i don't have specific tasting notes because i was drinking with friends, but there are times you're so thoroughly enjoying the company that the wine gets lost in the evening. this wine kept forcing itself into my consciousness....it is luscious, complex and a thrill to drink. it will satisfy a cynical intellect and a happy-go-lucky novice because this wine is nuanced and delicious....it completely fans out on the tongue with a long finish. Sorry, that's all i remember....I'm getting the 2009 any day now and hope it lives up to the 08
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Tasted at Aiolos Wine Fair. The most complex and elegant of them all, although not as exotic and catchy as the Hosanna. Licorice, graphite, mint, sweet spice, blackberry and plum on the nose. Full-bodied, with firm tannins and balancing acidity. Very long aftertaste. A masterpiece.
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Aiolos Tasting: (Aiolos tasting) Ruby red. Attractive but a bit restraint nose, mild oak under a solid fruit base, with a few earth hints (and some mushroom?). Tight palate, fruity with some oak (and leather?), earth notes return here as well. Tried this one after chateau La Fleur-Petrus and it seems much easier and far more accessible at this point. With a couple hours of decanting this could be drunk now (strange as it seems)
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the last time i tried this, the fruit was so primary and packed it overwhelmed my senses - it was hard for me to discern any personality. But this bottle revealed a lot more. A very sexy combination of red/black fruit that is opulent and showing more delineation. Black cherry with hints of raspberry and minerals, the tannins may not be hard to detect, but they're hard to focus on because the fruit is so commanding. I'm very happy/encouraged by this bottle after being a little worried the first time I tried it
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this is a mammoth wine. opaque in color and packed with fruit that obscures just about everything: the alcohol, the tannins, the terroir, any hint of nuance. i know it's early and my opinion may change but for now this reminds me of California.
I have no idea how this will evolve over time, i have a half case so i'm keeping my fingers crossed
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Beatifully complex for such a young wine, with nice cedar notes underlying the fragrant red fruit. A little tight, but the tannins are pure and not worrysome.
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08 Château Trotanoy is deep ruby. The nose is taken over by an impressive barrage of flowers, spice, dark chocolate, plums, and ripe blackberries and raspberries. Rich, concentrated, and full bodied, the wine makes you feel as though you just poured liquid silk all over your palate. The sensuous finish goes on and on with amazing depth of flavor. A great marriage of power and decadence aptly describes this wine. 97-99 Pts
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Bordeaux 2008 (Bordeaux): This has also filled out since en primeur and is certainly the most dense outside Petrus. Shows off milk chocolate, ripe plum, damson and an iodine freshness combined with a silky texture. Not as deep as the 2005 or the 2006 for that matter, but very pleasing and layered. 92-95
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11/23/2023 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 Points
One for the hedonists. This poured an opaque purple with no signs of age. Dark aromatic profile of blackberry liqueur, fig, creosote, tar, iron and a hint of sweetness later emerging with air. A full, plush mouthful of dark plummy fruit with mouthwatering acidity pulling it all together. Most of the action here was on the front to mid palate. Some tannic grip on the finish. This shows quite young still with a lot of primary fruit. Absolutely delicious and I suspect it has a long runway and further upside ahead.
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7/27/2023 - Burgnick wrote:
The 08 Trotanoy was rich and tightly coiled. Lots of underlying substance but it still needs plenty of time to fully unfold. It needs a long decant if you must consume now.
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7/22/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Taken to a BBQ. My last bottle. Classic soft merlot berries with hints of green tobacco and camphor. Some Lafleur-like mulberry. Drink now with air or feels this would be even better in a few years. Lovely texture already though. 93-94
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7/2/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bottle 5/6. Less expressive than prior bottles with a tannic spline. Deep purple fruit and flowers, tightly-wound morelo cherry finish. 93/100
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5/6/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 93 Points
Bottle 4/6. This was more classic and a tad less exuberant than previous bottles. Some green notes and book leather and black fruit. 92-93
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4/23/2023 - KenK Likes this wine: 95 Points
Rich plummy red fruited with a rich seamless nearly lush mouth coating texture, came across young and yummy, perhaps still in need of some more nuance, but a drinking great.
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4/16/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bottle 3/6. Decanted an hour ahead and was just opening as we sat down. This bottle was a little less hedonistic and a little more classic than others recently. Pipe tobacco, hint of emerging leather, morelo cherry, medium to long finish. Don’t remember this vintage’s blend but the cabernet franc is coming out quite strongly at 15 years with some classic green notes. 94+
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3/19/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bottle 2/6 paired with Iberico pluma and red velvet cake for Mother’s Day! This was decanted for 2 hours and tasted of rich morelo cherry fruit, chocolate, satsuma and classic hints of green pepper/capsicum and leather. Got less pronounced but smoother and creamier then closed a bit at the 3 hour mark. Not an in-your-face vintage but classic and smooth. 94+/100
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1/29/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 95 Points
Paired with Hare Pithvidier. Classic Pomerol. Mint and stem nose which became fruitier/earthier. Very giving palate of morelo cherry, blue and red fruit, mint chocolate and a 15 second finish of waves. Classy and elegant rather than blockbuster. In its early drinking window with plenty of hedonistic fruit and emerging tertiary notes of leather and stem. 95/100. At this stage decant for at least an hour as it was fully open towards the two hour mark.
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8/18/2022 - SpitzNV Likes this wine: 93 Points
Decanted for an hour and drank over another hour. Nose dominated by fresh spearmint but also a bit of cedar, tobacco, funk and dried thyme. Palate is quite lean: cranberry, steak juices, and rosemary. Grippy tannins with medium acid. 30 second finish of dried cherry, mint and lavender. Very nice but at the price expected a bit more.
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7/21/2022 - wxs2102 Likes this wine: 94 Points
At Manhatta NYC. Big menthol notes on the nose that mellowed out over the course of 1-2 hours. The fruit was bright, the mouthfeel a perfect roundedness, gritty tannins that are decently integrated but has room to go, a classic Pomerol polish and finesse on the finish. It got more integrated and velvety with air as the night went on. Clearly one of the triumphs of the vintage, this is good to go today but should hold for 5-10 more years at peak.
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12/9/2021 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 93 Points
Slow oxed overnight, beautiful nose, v young still with bold tannins, rich Pomerol nose, creamy & oaky, in the mouth biggish but not in sync still, try after 5 years but needs at least 10 years to reach peak, will be v good once ready
93-95
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11/28/2021 - jmoon Likes this wine: 93 Points
Had next to a Giscours 09, which was quite classic in comparison. This wine is quite open, plush, and ripe with soft dark fruits. Two hour double decant prior. Tasted young and bold despite decant.
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9/27/2021 - KenK Likes this wine: 95 Points
Perfumed aromas of pretty violets, dark fruits and good ripeness.
Deep rich long liquid flowers, popourri, soffit rich powerful. Really good, sexy. Velvety, voluptuous and deep. Long and rich. Very impressive, young, powerful and balanced. Just in early drinking window. Wow wine.
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1/29/2020 - Suzyquatro Likes this wine: 94 Points
Na 3 uur karaf - Glanzende donkerrobijnrode kleur - Neus van krachtig, vlezig rijp fruit, zwarte chocolade, kruiden en tikje sigaar - Vol en fluweelachtige textuur in de mond met frisse terugkomende lagen, zuren en tannines in harmonie, complex en elegant met nog heel wat potentieel - Lange afdronk met tonen van zachte chocolade - Nog jong !
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10/26/2019 - CamWheeler wrote: 93 Points
Truffles and a couple of bottles: Plum, graphite, red currant, ash - good aromatics and fragrance. Approachable even with the strong tannic firmness. Persistent with ultra classy fruit. Great to check in on this, but more time needed.
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7/20/2019 - Kriz wrote: 92 Points
This is not complely ready yet. Very good wine but will come together some more. Nose with ripe plum, blackberry and some oak. Powerful palate. Creamy, tasty, grippy, oaky. Hold for at least 3 years.
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6/12/2019 - Thanart Likes this wine: 95 Points
Attractive bouquet, berries fruits, cedar, tar. Fine tannin and some level of acidity that provide freshness for the palate. Strong cellar potential. Unique evolution of the wine as time passes by.
Decant for about 2 hours.
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9/21/2018 - OmiyaDrinker wrote: 92 Points
Dark plum, red liqorice, clove, aniseed. Delicious, rounded fruit flavor, nice freshness with medium+ acid. Carrying just a little heat on the finish. Needs time as it is still quite compact and youthful but should be delicious in another 5 years or so. A good find from the Systembolaget. Drank in Sweden on the eve of Dave’s wedding on an empty stomach while contemplating golf.
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9/17/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
Full bodied and packed to the gilled with layers of juicy, sweet, chocolate coated, black cherries and plums. Stubbornly hanging on to its youth, the wine is concentrated, long, round and tannic. There is freshness, purity and a wealth of fruits in the finish that move from black cherry, to sweet, deep plum effortlessly. This is going to age quite nicely.
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5/19/2018 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points
Another winner of this estate. Wonderful nose of dark fruit with some leather, smoke, black current, sweet spices. Elegant, polished tannins, refined, not as brooding as 2000 and 2010. A grand Pomerol start-to-finish. Early, decant or better wait another 5 years. 96+
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2/11/2018 - soyhead wrote:
bold and powerful. in a lovely space.
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5/19/2017 - Zweder wrote: 95 Points
Occasional dinner group: Riesling GG and Top Pomerol (@ Zarzo): Beautiful, inviting and complex bouquet with dark berries, licorice, earth and autumn flavors. On the palate dark berries, licorice, good acidity and length. Round and powerful tannin. A real beauty with a great future.
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5/14/2016 - otto60 wrote: 95 Points
Starting with half bottle Coravin over 2h followed by cork removal due to private reasons.
Dark red transparency with first signs of maturity.
On start rubber nose, later dark fruits and some mint followed by a high density bouquet with iron fruit and loam.
Long and very homogenous palate with just enough highly fine grained tannin.
Two more bottles..drink until 2035 or so.
CT average is 94,9 today, i agree....
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6/18/2015 - MWiking wrote: 94 Points
drack detta igår och måste säga att det var ruskigt gott trots sin ungdom
ett kanonvin, fullpackad med frukt
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5/25/2013 - lator wrote: 94 Points
No formal notes. 93-94 points.
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10/18/2012 - kr522 wrote: 98 Points
this is a great wine and i underrated it, getting better each time i taste it. i don't have specific tasting notes because i was drinking with friends, but there are times you're so thoroughly enjoying the company that the wine gets lost in the evening. this wine kept forcing itself into my consciousness....it is luscious, complex and a thrill to drink. it will satisfy a cynical intellect and a happy-go-lucky novice because this wine is nuanced and delicious....it completely fans out on the tongue with a long finish. Sorry, that's all i remember....I'm getting the 2009 any day now and hope it lives up to the 08
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10/15/2012 - Yiannis wrote: 96 Points
Tasted at Aiolos Wine Fair. The most complex and elegant of them all, although not as exotic and catchy as the Hosanna. Licorice, graphite, mint, sweet spice, blackberry and plum on the nose. Full-bodied, with firm tannins and balancing acidity. Very long aftertaste. A masterpiece.
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10/14/2012 - kostaslonis Likes this wine: 94 Points
Aiolos Tasting: (Aiolos tasting) Ruby red. Attractive but a bit restraint nose, mild oak under a solid fruit base, with a few earth hints (and some mushroom?).
Tight palate, fruity with some oak (and leather?), earth notes return here as well. Tried this one after chateau La Fleur-Petrus and it seems much easier and far more accessible at this point. With a couple hours of decanting this could be drunk now (strange as it seems)
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8/30/2012 - kr522 wrote: 95 Points
the last time i tried this, the fruit was so primary and packed it overwhelmed my senses - it was hard for me to discern any personality. But this bottle revealed a lot more. A very sexy combination of red/black fruit that is opulent and showing more delineation. Black cherry with hints of raspberry and minerals, the tannins may not be hard to detect, but they're hard to focus on because the fruit is so commanding. I'm very happy/encouraged by this bottle after being a little worried the first time I tried it
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3/1/2012 - kr522 wrote: 92 Points
this is a mammoth wine. opaque in color and packed with fruit that obscures just about everything: the alcohol, the tannins, the terroir, any hint of nuance. i know it's early and my opinion may change but for now this reminds me of California.
I have no idea how this will evolve over time, i have a half case so i'm keeping my fingers crossed
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5/1/2011 - mcarpentier wrote: 94 Points
Beatifully complex for such a young wine, with nice cedar notes underlying the fragrant red fruit. A little tight, but the tannins are pure and not worrysome.
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7/30/2009 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
08 Château Trotanoy is deep ruby. The nose is taken over by an impressive barrage of flowers, spice, dark chocolate, plums, and ripe blackberries and raspberries. Rich, concentrated, and full bodied, the wine makes you feel as though you just poured liquid silk all over your palate. The sensuous finish goes on and on with amazing depth of flavor. A great marriage of power and decadence aptly describes this wine. 97-99 Pts
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6/1/2009 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bordeaux 2008 (Bordeaux): This has also filled out since en primeur and is certainly the most dense outside Petrus. Shows off milk chocolate, ripe plum, damson and an iodine freshness combined with a silky texture. Not as deep as the 2005 or the 2006 for that matter, but very pleasing and layered. 92-95
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