1916 Château La Conseillante

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  3/13/2017 - Dave Canada wrote: 97 Points

  Bern's Dinner - Tampa
  
  This is the magic of provenance! Pale garnet....still so alive. Dried red fruit, smoke, leather, earth, dried flowers, cedar, spice and iron.
  
  Palate is so lithe...no edges.....Cashmere on palate. Dried Flowers, dried red and black fruit, earth, leather, cedar, and smoke. Fruit is still so alive with so much depth and texture...magic of provenance. This was bought ex Château in 1960s and then has not moved for 50 years.
  
  Finish is long....so long....with lots of dried fruit, leather, mineral, iron, smoke, flowers, cedar....unreal wine.
  
  97pts....a once in a lifetime experience.

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  2/19/2017 - retired_and_roving Likes this wine:

  From the wine list at Bern's. At age 101, this is the oldest wine I have ever tasted by a long shot. The bottle has a slip label and was imported directly from the chateau by Bern's in the 1970's. Fill level and color were good - only one bottle left in their cellar after this. Cork crumbled on opening but was fully extracted and poured to decanter. This was the WOTN of the night for me and I think the whole table. The color is pale ruby and almost translucent and burgundian looking - with very little browning. On the initial smell and pour a mild taste of bananas (but this may have been noticed at the suggestion of the somm) which soon passed. On the palate the wine seems quite fresh and youthful, red fruit is definitely still present though not bold. The weight in the mouth feels light and more burgundian. Flavors of red fruit (raspberries), leather and earth are all present but in a delicate pretty way. The wine continued to improve for about 2 hours then started to shut down and decline - but oh what a ride while it lasted. The pleasure of this wine given its age made us all begin to muse on what was going on in the world when with this was being made a century ago. Wow - what a great pleasure this was!!

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  2/19/2017 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Tampa Spring Break (the second); 2/17/2017-2/19/2017 (Various spots (homes, Mis en Place, Capital Grille)): I think this might have been my wine of the trip. Ordered off the wine list at Berns. Crazy to imagine this wine is 101 years old (I have multiple grandparents who lived entire lifetimes since this was made). Good color and decent fill (prob shoulder area). Opened and decanted and for two hours this just kept getting better and better. Lots of pretty floral and red fruit characteristics. Almost young tasting in the beginning. Around the two hour mark it seemed to make a turn downhill, but it was a fun ride while it lasted. Just a pretty wine and something really special.

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  3/3/2011 - dcwino wrote: 90 Points

  Very pretty but lost most of the Bordeaux characters. Someone thought very cedary. I imagine this has always been a delicate wine. Lovely.

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