Old Doug
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Member since May 2011
Locale: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Favorite region: Burgundy, Bordeaux, Piedmont, Tuscany, California
Dream wine: 96 pointer for $10.
Married, no kids, love travel and wine. My wife and I drink more whites than reds. Nothing is off-limits. Strong to light, dry to sweet.
2001 Château Suduiraut
4/24/2023 - Old Doug Likes this wine: 95 Points
Amber color. Spicy honey and orange marmalade. Quite strong acidity, less 'sugar sweet' than I expected but with a huge hit of fruit. Very pleasurable to try and pin down the flavors, and I ended up not being sure - there is so much here. I do think it will be better in 10 or 20 years, but it's quite something now.
If I ask myself if I taste banana, lemon, orange, mango, I'd say yes. The acidity - a tart apple. The palate really dances around.
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2008 Dacalier De La Terre
5/4/2021 - Old Doug Likes this wine: 91 Points
Clear, light-medium ruby color; nose of surprisingly young, vibrant fruit with the barest hint of menthol. Palate heavy on cherry - redfruits into plum, some black currant, spicy finish with some cloves in there somewhere, all with a still-substantial acidic backbone.
Tough Wine Department: this bottle never had true climate-controlled storage. In 2012 we moved, and a few cases of wine got stored at a sister-in-law's house. The cases got lost in the shuffle, and spent years in their basement, which included a Georgia summer when the building was open to the elements during major renovations - so a few months of relatively high heat with probably 50 days above 90°F or 32°C.
You just never know...
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2014 Château Rauzan-Ségla
2/14/2021 - Old Doug Likes this wine: 93 Points
Looked and smelled "big" without too much flowery Margaux quality.
Impressively good even at this young age, better as it breathed, and not bad QPR value. A really big hit of dark fruit but the overall perceived sweetness is nice, proper, etc., in what I'd say is a 'medium weight' wine. Good acidity and fairly prominent tannins will carry this one beautifully into the decades ahead.
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