2000 Château Fourcas Loubaney

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  5/30/2013 - Julian Marshall Does not like this wine:

  This was disappointing, because I really enjoyed the last one I drank a year or two ago. The nose is typically masculine, like most Listracs, with strong notes of leather and earth amongst the red berries. In the mouth, there is still the power and depth of before, but the fruit has soured somewhat, leaving a rather unpalatable mixture of leather, spice and bitterness that dominate what remains of the fruit. Pity.

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  11/12/2012 - drzweigelt wrote: 89 Points

  All in all consistent with the previous bottle - this wine is still in superb shape, dark colour, lots of fruit, a bit cooked maybe and with lively acid and tannins. Nice, I would really want to behave myself and leave this in the cellar but the days pass ever so slowly....why 89 instead of 90 - I didn't like the cooked fruit this time, did not integrate well.

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  6/11/2012 - drzweigelt wrote: 90 Points

  Very dark ruby red, no ageing yet. On the nose very floral, some spicey and blueberries, but not blockbuster, more refined and elegant. Initially very austere, hard on the palate, very sour but with good fruit showing as well. After 6 hours in the decanter it becomes a lot smoother, fruity and floral, good backbone, serious and with a very good length, some drying tannins remain. On the whole a well aged wine which will hold for 5-10 more years I guess - can be drunk now, might slightly improve over the years.

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