2010 Château La Violette

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 97.5 points

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  7/8/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points

  Intense, sensual, opulent full-bodied, rich and supple, the wine opens with its seductive nose of violets, truffle, cocoa, dark red fruits, and wet earth, But it is the richness and intensity with its non-stop layers of opulent, velvet-drench, black and red fruits, chocolate and spice box on the palate that steal the show. The 60-second finish is close to seamless. The wine coats your palate with layers of sensually textured, silky fruits. You can enjoy it now, but it is only going to get better from here and should improve for at least 2-3 decades from here. Drink from 2025-2050.

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  6/10/2020 - drjb Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Wine Group Dinner #174, Harveys Restaurant, Brisbane. Cult Wines of the World (Harvey's Restaurant, James St, Fortitude Valley): Wine Group Dinner #174, Harveys Restaurant, Brisbane. This wine has a deep viscous colour of garnet plums and a dramatic nose of dark plums, blackcurrant, dark chocolate, candied violet and a touch of spice. The palate is just delicious and velvety with pure fruits and touches of dark chocolate and allspice and long soft yet persistent tannins. Its a lovely bottle of great Merlot that's sadly seldom seen.

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  9/16/2016 - Collector1855 wrote: 97 Points

  66x Parker 100-Pointers from Bordeaux 1947-2010 tasted blind (Switzerland): Tasted blind. Dark purple. Modern nose of cola, dark fruit, toast, very lovely, similar to the Le Pin and the Client 2009. Very nice palate, quite modern but good freshness and soft tannins. Several purists did not fancy this wine but I really liked it and it was a very nice way to finish the right bankers tonight after a substantial number of over-extracted misfires. Group score: 16.26, group rank: 57/64

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  5/14/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points

  Wow, did I get this wrong on barrel. It happens. But I am man enough to willingly admit it. This has blossomed into one of the silkiest, sexiest, wines I’ve tasted in ages. The perfect ripe sweet fruit feels like each berry was hand polished with a velvet cloth. The wine is rich, concentrated, deep, long, complex and utterly hedonistic. Pure bottled hedonism at its best!

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  4/21/2011 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  La Violette From 100% old Merlot vines located on the Pomerol plateau, the wine pops with scents of violets, chocolate, black raspberry jam, licorice and truffle. In the mouth, lush black plum, dark cherry and earthy flavors are discovered in the finish. 92-94 Pts

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