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2010 Jules Desjourneys Fleurie Les Moriers
4/27/2024 - Benoit Hardy wrote: 89 Points
Uninviting nose at first on the burnt tire. It will evolve positively towards cooked fruit.
Mouth with a frank attack with aromas of espresso and coconut. Some tertiary notes. It’s quite a departure from the brightly fruity Beaujolais I’ve been drinking. Sensation of an “ambitious” wine but which fails to convince me with its cooked fruit side. Good cocoa finish.
Question of style... But I think this wine must have been better a few years ago.
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2009 Château Brane-Cantenac
4/27/2024 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Bottle drunk in parallel with a Pontet Canet 2009. Carafage for 4 hours.
Nose of black fruits, menthol, tobacco and leather.
Mouth full of tension, with a stony side. Mineral flavors, dead leaves, black fruits and tobacco follow one another in a harmonious and intense way. Beautiful complexity and evolution for a wine which retains a nice freshness but which already seems to be at its peak unless you prefer more tertiary aromas. Today it offers a good balance, it is suave and sapid. Beautiful finish on tobacco with an elegant length.
Excellent.
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2009 Château Pontet-Canet
4/27/2024 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 Points
Opulent nose, black fruits, graphite, cedar, coconut and vanilla.
Structured palate with magnificent intensity. A 4-hour decanting was necessary to soften this noble beast. The juice is thick and velvety with a magnificent balance, thanks in particular to a fine acidity which stretches the wine to infinity. Second part of the palate is spicier with flavors of undergrowth. Great finish with a still notable tannic mass which will take a few more years to fully blend, good length on the graphite.
Excellent Pauillac, still very young.
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