1889 Château Gruaud Larose

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  5/4/2014 - rnellans wrote: 89 Points

  Very light color. Some amber..looks like dilute iced tea. It has seen it’s better days. Fading. Strawberry, ginger, rose notes on nose. Palate better than one would think from the color. Little depth.

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  5/3/2014 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 88 Points

  Not as strong a vintage as the 1895, we're told. I took a whiff and almost thought this might have to be dumped, but it turns out to be one of those wines that tastes good even if the smell if offputting. And the smell was definitely offputting, like one of those gray bubblegum stains on a city sidewalk. On the palate, there is not a whole lot of material left, but it has a juicy, orchard-fruit profile with a gravelly minerality that is not so dissimilar from younger Gruauds in their prime. It's impressive that this is hanging on at all - the color in the glass when you hold it against the light is almost transparent, with almost a centimeter around the rim that's literally as clear as water with just a slight tint of red in the middle - but the really impressive thing is that while it may be fading away, it's not cracking up. Even the little color that remains is more red than brick and it's not showing any oxidation or maderization or anything like that, just a frail but still dignified old age.

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