1955 Château Gilette Crème de Tête

Community Tasting Notes (15) Median Score: 93 points

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  11/4/2023 - evanqian wrote: 94 Points

  A Syrah night in Kampai (Auckland CBD): 83% Semillon, 15% Sauvignon Blanc, and 2% Muscadelle. Deep gold/brown, honey, dried apricot, rich and succulent, solid acidity, full body, obviously alive and full of vigour. all balanced and very long. It's amazing nearly 70 year old! though I expected a little more density.
  
  RVF 19
  
  Ap 5/5, Ar 13/15, Palate 17/20, Overall 4+5/10
  Total 94/100

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  10/17/2021 - Cailles wrote: 80 Points

  30x 1955 & 1961 (mostly Bdx): Tasted single blind. Taste-off between the 1955 and 1961 vintages. The 1955 (80 pts) had not much to offer with a disintegrated acidity and wet cardboard smells. The 1961 (90 pts) showed young and well defined but the acidity wasn‘t that well integrated either. Unsurprisingly, both wines couldn‘t keep pace with the Yquems in the same flight.
  
  TN: Faulty wet cardboard smells on the nose and palate which still showing a nice, undefined sweetness but also an unintegrated acidity. In addition, the finish is not existant.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted. Maybe this would have needed a bit of air.

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  9/20/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 75 Points

  Grand 1961 vs 1955 vintage tasting (Fribourg): Big 1961 vs 1955 tastings including 10 direct match-ups and 11 individual wines from 1961. The tasting was conducted in flights of 4, single-blind and with no previous decant with all bottles opened 1h prior to start. The line-up was dominated by Bordeaux reds, but also included 5 Sauternes, 1 Champagne, 3 Burgundy reds and 1 Ribera del Duero. The following observations are worth mentioning: i) 1961 generally came across as a better vintage today than 1955, ii) the performance correlated with the 1855 classification, iii) The most outstanding wines were outside of the Bordeaux reds with Veuve Clicquot Rosé '61, Vega Sicilia Unico '61 (both 97) and La Tour Blanche '61 (96) worth mentioning, iv) Top-performing Bordeaux was Margaux (95) in 1961 and Mouton in 1955. List of wines included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  Not really expressive and hard to pin-point the individual flavours. Not as sweet as the '61 next to it. Palate is marked by faulty notes and a brutally short finish. Something clearly went wrong here at one point over the last 66 years.

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  10/26/2020 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points

  A bit simple for 55 Sauternes, but without doubt fresh, lively, bitter orange peel masking the actual age.

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  9/6/2018 - wendt wrote:

  Excellent

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