1999 Alter Ego de Palmer

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  1/11/2023 - Ingmars wrote:

  Wine purchased en primeur and stored in a northern European cellar shortly after bottling, which this evening is down to +0.5C, so perhaps the fact that this still has a good amount of crimson in the crimson-ruby colour, shouldn't be completely surprising. While ruby at the rim, this doesn't even look middle-aged to me.
  
  Floral, subtle new barrique nose is proper Margaux. Caramel for a while, before returning to the floral theme, in particular, violets. Two hours later, there is more oak coming through, but the floral side becomes more intense too, adding blueberry muffin and some slightly roasted fruit notes to make for a very, very alluring and appealing nose.
  
  Medium body, elegant, feminine with a nice sweetness. Ample concentration and polish, rounded, but still with considerable tannic grip after the middle. This is a lovely ''second'' wine, but the palate tends to reinforce its status, with the lack of grand vin complexity as well as length suggesting that the younger vines from Palmer are the source. Thanks to the nose, this is fine wine, with a good future. Thirty years are quite achievable.

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  6/21/2018 - WineGuyX Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Fantastic nose filled with creme de cassis and new oak. Medium-full bodied with an excellent inner core of sweet fruit. Lots of black currant fruit and charred wood on the palate as well as a bit of spice and salty minerals. Drink now-2022. 91

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  4/10/2015 - evanbaines Likes this wine:

  Fully mature. Very enjoyable... Posting this after a few days so tough to recall descriptors.

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  12/24/2014 - Ingmars wrote:

  Medium-darkish ruby colour. The nose is earthy and oaky at the start, with plums and a faint hint of violets at two hours. After another two hours, the fruit becomes a lot darker and some new barrique is showing. A substantial amount of mature and seemingly simple fruit with the first mouthful, but its still got decent grip. At four hours, the palate has become more dense, with more perceptible extraction, and a lot sweeter. Ample. The deliciously sweet fruit expresses itself far, far more on the palate than it does on the nose. This fine 2nd wine should improve over the next couple of years and drink well till age twenty.

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  3/11/2014 - RickyT12 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Kind of a dull purple. Interesting old world nose. A little sourness, but nice sweetness and leather on the nose. After a few minutes in the glass a caramel sweetness comes out on nose. Little barnyard on the nose. Bruised apple flavors some sweetness mixed with a little sour, also hints of leather flavors.

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