2004 Château Le Pin

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 95.6 points

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  4/25/2024 - johnh1001 wrote: 93 Points

  Decanted for 2 hours. Dark fruit, chocolate, red fruit, plum, herbs and minerals. A lot going on here all with a wonderfully silky texture. Finish falls a bit short but love the flavors and texture.

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  2/24/2024 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points

  Bordeaux 2004 - 20 Years On - 33 Reds: All wines tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) 2004 is a mediocre vintage overall, with many pleasant wines, but without the depth of better years. 2) At the top, the vintage produced some classic, old-school wines with lots of freshness and fresh fruit. 3) At the lower end, many wines lacked fruit and ripe tannins, resulting in some astringent and slightly drying wines. 4) An alarming number of Right Bank wines (5 out of 16, no Left Bank wine) were oxidized, including some heavyweights like Petrus, Evangile or Figeac. An unacceptably high proportion of faulty wines. 5) I’m not sure that the 2004 are currently in a good phase, many of my scores were lower than in previous tastings. The question is if it’s just a weaker phase or the beginning of the end. 6) At the top and the only wine >95pts was a layered Le Pin (rated 96pts), with a charming Vieux Chateau Certan, a surprising Issan and Clos l'Eglise, as well as an elegant Lafite sharing second place (all rated 94pts).
  
  TN: I was fortunate to taste this for the second time in two years and it again delivered. The most complex wine in the tasting with a broad array of fruit in all colors and shapes, minerality and herbal accents and a well-proportioned but noticeable oak influence with coffee and toasty aromas. Especially all the fresh blue fruit was to die for. All aromas are delivered in high definition and the structural frame is impeccable with fine tannins, high freshness and fine texture, resulting in a balanced and highly elegant wine. This is great. 95/96pts.

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  9/13/2023 - In2wines Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Bordeaux April 2023
  At allmost 20 years this baby seems to hit it's prime, cracking good, very fruity for the 2004 vintage - Le Pin's velvety shines here, to integrate this level of mid-palate in this vintage is impressive, served next to Masseto (93/100) this was a clear winner, and having had sevel Lafleur (93/100 & Petrus 2004 (94/100) this comes out on the top, Petrus will outlive Le Pin but it's much more 'old' english claret in style and lack's the sex appel this baby has .. . Drink 2024- 2040 (2 extra points for the difficult vintage)

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  5/15/2022 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points

  6 Vintages Le Pin vs Petrus vs Lafleur vs Other Pomerol: All wines tasted single blind, not decanted. Served in 6 vintage flights with a alternating 4th Pomerol added to every flight. A few observations: 1) Le Pin handily won this tasting, for me (4 out of 6 vintages at 96/97 pts) and the consensus. Made in a charming way, with loads of perfectly integrated, luxurious oak-derived notes, this wines drink well young and works very well in a larger tasting like this were you can’t follow the wines over an evening. Complex, round, intense, sexy yet elegant. 2) Lafleur came in second, despite mostly only hinting at its potential with very high complexity, it’s wonderful, typical herbal and earthy notes, all embedded in an impeccable, light structural frame. But they need time. 3) Most vintages of Petrus underperformed tonight (all below 95 pts). They would have needed more time to open up and come together. 4) 2009/10 vintages are great and unsurprisingly got the highest scores, 2008 confirmed it status as a Bdx vintage that is excellent to drink today. More information/rankings in the tasting story.
  
  TN: Wow nose, so much luxurious toasty oak notes, coffee, blue and and dark red fruits. The nose is spectacular. The palate it can’t keep up with the nose. Lots of cola, ripe red fruit, bubble gum, herbs, floral notes. Nicely layered, good precision, quite fine tannins and roundness, creamy but with not enough freshness to be perfectly balance. 94 pts, same as Trotanoy 04 which, however, is the more complete wine. The Le Pin gets the points mainly for the nose.
  
  Decanting: Open from the start. No extensive decanting needed.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): What a nose here. So sexy, toasty oak, intermixed with dark fruit. On the palate very caressing and charming. Light bodied but not thin. A really succulent wines that is hard to dislike. Le Pin was the shining winner in this flight. They really nailed this vintage.

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