2001 Château La Conseillante

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  4/26/2024 - djhammond wrote: flawed

  Cork was totally dried out and almost crumbled to dust with whole bottle undrinkable. Puzzling as both my cases have had good storage and this was the 12th of 24 and the first to have any issues.

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  3/7/2024 - ccn wrote: 91 Points

  Clearly from a ripe and structured vintage. The tannins have softened but are still present, and there is still quite a bit of dark fruit here. Quite extracted. Seems to still have a lot of potential and development ahead of it. If I had to nitpick a bit, I found the flavour profile slightly muddy.

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  11/11/2023 - Mr T wrote:

  My final bottle… Goodbye old friend! Who would have thought 26 bottles was not enough, although I do think this marvelous wine is past its peak and beginning to fade. If you have, drink up

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  10/2/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 93 Points

  20-vintage La Conseillante vertical (Fribourg): Part of a 20 vintage vertical (key takeaways in the tasting story). Ripe and extracted fruit of dark and red cherry. Maybe just hints of liquorish. Floral top notes, just a bit of raw vanilla bean and fresher herbal notes. Perfumed but not necessarily in a good way (overly artificial scents). Full bodied with quite some muscle and drying tannin, but balanced by acidity and aromatic intensity.

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  10/2/2023 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  20 Vintages of La Conseillante (1947-2020): All wines tasted blind. I have had many beautiful Conseillantes in the past, but in this tasting the wines did not shine as expected. A few thoughts: A) Conseillante is a seductive, sensual wine, not unlike more Bordeaux-esque Napa Valley wines. In fact, it reminded me a lot of Opus One, with the blue and black forest berry aromas found in almost every vintage. B) The fruit is ripe, but never too ripe. But only in the cooler years (and 2020) is the fruit perfectly pure and fresh. C) Even in the newer vintages, the (luxurious) oak notes are still present and will need some time to be fully absorbed. D) My biggest problem (and the group had the same one) was that almost all of the newer vintages showed alcohol notes that weren't noticeable en primeur or in the Arrivage tastings (and the wines were served at a perfect temperature or rather a little too cold). E) There were some beautiful wines, complex and seductive, but La Conseillante is not a wine for classic Bordeaux or Left Bank lovers. Conseillante is the hot one-night stand, not the elegant and intellectually appealing wine I want to drink every day. F) The best wine was the 2020 (96pts, the only score above 95pts), confirming my impression that it is a better, less ripe Bordeaux vintage than 2019.
  
  TN: One of the winners of the tasting. Medium expressive nose with dark and dark red berries, some meaty notes. Good but not mesmerizing. But on the palate this shows superb: complex and precise coffee notes, dark fruit, dark red berries, fresh herbs and crushed rocks. But the coffee notes and some spices are at the core. Not everybody will like that, it is not Cheval coffee, it’s more plump oak-derived coffee. The tannins are ripe and round, good acidity and tension. Quite complete but still a bit monolithic at this young stage. 94+pts today
  
  Decanting: The bottle was opened a few hours before consumption but not decanted. I guess this could have used 2-3 hours in a decanter to climb even higher.

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