2012 Concha y Toro Merlot Marqués de Casa Concha

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  12/12/2020 - johnrm Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Better than the last couple of bottles. Tasted 2+ hours after opening and it seemed bigger and more powerful than before. Fair fruit, still. Plenty of body and character with slight medicinal hints (dare I say ‘Germolene’?) on the middle/late palate. OK with a beef dish but past its best. Can't really put a number on it.
  This wine was much, much better next day. Rich, smooth, good with food. I have not changed my original note but have now given the wine a numerical rating. It is not yet too old!

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  10/7/2020 - MSheridan Likes this wine: 89 Points

  deep plum and woody notes. no sign of tiredness in this bottle and enough structure to cellar a few more years.
  Only slightly negative point is that the 14.5% alcohol is a little too evident when initially drinking

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  5/3/2020 - MSheridan wrote: 87 Points

  Wasn’t until 3rd day after opening that I enjoyed this
  Initially this shows mint and deep, (over?) extracted fruit. Used a glass for cooking while opened other bottle to drink
  Same on day 2 so left to day 3 by which it had rounded a bit with the menthol having faded, the fruit is still deep, and at risk of touching stewed note from standing around but easily drinkable
  Bit of a puzzling one this as still seems quite primary despite being 8years from vintage. Will hold on further to see if anything happens to my remaining two

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  10/3/2019 - johnrm wrote:

  Further to my comment of 15 Sept., we tried another bottle. It was reasonable but had lost much of the sweet fruit and complexity we had enjoyed in earlier years. OK with food but a shadow of its former self IMO. It did not improve after 24h. Drink up.

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  9/15/2019 - johnrm Likes this wine: 89 Points

  This bottle showed fruit that was less sweet and it was less immediately approachable than earlier bottles, even 3-4 hours after opening. Still good but the vegetal notes were more evident to me (almost a trace of 'parsnip'). My wife just got cherries (with bitter cherry notes) so perhaps it is just me. I think this is ready to drink up but after previous tastings, it could just be an odd bottle.
  Better with food later. Time will tell......

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