2012 Château Clos de Sarpe

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  8/1/2021 - Wine MOB wrote: 92 Points

  Massive concentration and acids. Plums, blueberries, barnyard, leather, graphite, sage, tobacco, chocolate, espresso, just massive flavors.

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  8/6/2020 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 90 Points

  This is a heavyweight, but taut enough that it feels more like a heavyweight boxer than a heavyweight sumo wrestler. I understand the vines here are pretty old, or at least what passes for old in Bordeaux, and a lot of its power does seem to come more from V.V.-style density than from flab. The fruit is still pretty intense though - hard to imagine it has budged much from however it tasted on release - certainly intense enough not to make the tannins an issue. It's oaky, too, but about as luxe as oak can get, nothing raw or excessively sweet or toasted about it, it comes across like ultra-buffed, tight-grained, furniture-grade cedar.

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  6/22/2018 - GeorgeGj wrote: 92 Points

  Had a glass with minimal decant time, was fine. Ended up drinking the rest of the bottle 2 days later (vacuum pump). Way way better. Was delicious. Of course you can cellar longer but if you want to drink it, decant or a long time and even give it a day or two. You will not regret it.

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  3/19/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points

  Concentrated with layers of black plums, and assorted dark red pit fruits, this is packed with a combination of fruit and a wall of tannin, coated with crushed rocks and spice. Primary, and in need of aging, this will develop nicely if you are patient and have a few decades to spare.

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  11/8/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points

  With a complex nose of crushed rocks, coffee bean, smoke, black cherries and plums, the wine is full bodied, tannic, rich and long. There is good depth of flavor and concentration. One of the few vintages of Clos de Sarpe that is shaping up to show well early, the wine was made from a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc.

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