2005 Château Saint-André Corbin

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 88.2 points

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  6/7/2019 - nzinkgraf wrote:

  Much more blackberry fruit to the nose than the 2016 red/black fruit salad. Really great spot for drinking. Fruit and earth well-balanced. Still medium tannin to the wine. Medium plus acid. Lots of life still. Drink to 2030.
  Stopped egg white fining in 2007.

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  9/4/2017 - clutj Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Great QPR

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  12/6/2015 - clutj Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Pretty well aged at this point; tannins smooth, still some decent fruit.

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  7/11/2013 - Will Devize wrote:

  This is a solid, soft-fruited merlot which has plenty of mellow fruit to hang on its robust, classical bones.

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  12/30/2012 - TSBWine Likes this wine: 90 Points

  90-91 pts with some bonus points for the age on it. Not a terribly complex wine but solid for the price. Pretty expressive nose after the initial pour with macerated black cherries and currants. Certainly had the character of an older wine on the palate with the black cherry fruit having a rather meaty character to it. Incredibly chalky tannins at first that hid some other components but with some aeration the wine developed some more character.
  
  At its best the wine contained a really pleasing meaty black cherry, generous cacao and mint all rolled up on the mid-palate. There wasn't much if any elegance here, but it had a pleasing nature to it nonetheless. With extended aeration it developed some other characteristics of blackberry, black currant, hints of cola and at one point hinted of wet fallen leaves. Unfortunately the wine lacked any real focus to express anything harmoniously but that was to be expected given the price. Only the mint and cacao was persistent for any period of time.
  
  Overall, a tasty but inelegant wine that certainly benefited from the age. The tannin and acid are there but I'm not so sure that it will ever come together in a composed way. At peak maturity right now and possibly the next 3-5 years. I don't imagine it will get much better so enjoy now.

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