1961 Château Haut-Bages Averous

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91 points

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  9/9/2020 - NewFrenchClaret Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Quite a youthful color. Would have guessed 25 years younger. Delicious tobacco and damp soil nose, with hints of mint. Very tertiary as you would expect. Not particularly multi-faceted, but not a scent I'd ever get tired of.
  
  Beautifully concentrated, with sweetness and acidity in remarkable harmony. Tannins detectable but fading, with no hint of drying out. Lovely long finish, but with a rather bitter metallic note which keeps the wine from a higher score.
  
  Undoubtedly on a downslide, but very happy to taste this while it still has some thrills to offer.
  
  Edit- day two, and the metallic finish has subsided. As is so often the case, the last glass was the best.

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  3/3/2020 - Wine by Bok wrote: 90 Points

  Another 61 that took my audiences into an abyss of unknown territory, obviously served blind. Guesses were all over the place, closest answers I got was a Margaux wine in the 70s.
  
  Nose of feminine character, Margaux would be a good guess. Content was high in acidity, the fruits matured a bit more since I had the last bottle a couple of years ago. Definitely an atypical Pauillac style, fruits were matured and forward yet laid back as if time has paused indefinitely. Fun tasting! more tasting note in finewines.com.sg

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  8/11/2012 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  Beautiful old, sweet Claret that still has plenty of life. There are notes of sweet cedar, cassis, lead pencil and leather. It is not overly complex but has a round, full, vinous palate and just a gentle grip on the finish providing savoury nuance.

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