2015 Château Laffitte-Carcasset

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  2/3/2024 - Dan Hausrath wrote: 92 Points

  Deep garnet color with nose of blueberry, cassis, and black olive. Fresh acidity, full body, and fairly intense velvety tannins. Fairly concentrated flavors of blackberry, plum, and cassis with a little mint and cinnamon coming out on the finish, which is long and pleasantly dry. Really nice, in its prime window now I think.

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  4/23/2022 - Psdycp wrote: 90 Points

  Prominent nose of salty mineral, blackberries, tobacco, toasted licorice and savoury dried meat. The notes flow nicely into the palate, tannins are aggressive for now. Medium-bodied. This needs at least 3 hours for the elements to harmonise and tannins to soften. Keep this for at least 5 years.

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  9/23/2021 - rmnghosh Likes this wine: 88 Points

  2 hour decant, nice nose, strong berry flavours. Finish a bit short, but decent value for money. Better than expected!

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  7/18/2020 - Nipperu Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  clear deep ruby
  
  Nose of fresh black fruit, plums
  Vanilla, spice
  Alcohol/menthol
  Hint of graphite pencil
  Not a lot otherwise
  
  Dry
  Med+ tannins
  Med+ acidity
  Med body
  Med- finish
  Med alcohol
  Very short on the palate, not much impression of fruit, what there was seemed dusty and dried.
  
  Overall meh. Bargain bin buy but would not get another bottle. Tannins too harsh for the fruit- by the time they're manageable it'll be like drinking tea colored alcohol.
  
  Edit: after a 90min decant - tannins have greatly moderated. Now drinkable but not entirely pleasant. Finish is short but alcohol burn lingers - a little unbalanced.

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  11/19/2019 - Jake Barnes wrote: flawed

  Not a wine I will try again. It had a fairly decent cab-dominated nose, but that’s the only nice thing I can say about it.
  
  The central experience here was a briar pit of palate-scorching unripe tannins—the kind that end an evening because the only thing you might be able to taste after one glass is Listerine. Under these tannins, the wine seemed thin and lacking in fruit. It also had very low acidity, and even though it’s only 13% abv, the alcohol peeked out with telltale bitterness on the very short finish. For me, this is undrinkable and thus flawed.

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