2005 Château Villars

Community Tasting Notes (58) Avg Score: 88.1 points

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  4/23/2024 - wicozani Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Pours a nice fair dark ruby with maybe the slightest amount of bricking. The nose beckons with plum, cocoa, tobacco, herbs and soil. On the palate, wild raspberry joins these notes amidst ample acidity. Quite nice from the PnP, without need for decanting. Have been very satisfied with these inexpensive 2005 Bordeaux reds.

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  11/23/2023 - wicozani Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Opened at 0900 for Thanksgiving. Purchased on release. PnP. A medium ruby robe with shades of purple extending out to thinned clear but not bricked edges. Long languid legs. The nose beckons with plum, forest floor, and a hint of sherry character.
  
  Will update this note after seeing how it progresses and behaves with our turkey Thanksgiving dinner.

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  11/16/2023 - jmikeska wrote: 84 Points

  Past its prime.

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  5/9/2022 - TashNYC wrote: 84 Points

  So much better in 2008-2014. Today it has cedar, wood, earth, oak, tobacco, cherry and plum. Not bad with my roast, herbal chicken or rack of lamb but quite faded vs. the past.
  
  My spouse declined to partake of this wine. I wish I had drunk these earlier.

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  11/1/2021 - Ernestas wrote: 83 Points

  Tried very few wines from this lesser known right bank appellation. A traditional merlot based blend with 18% CF and 8% CS, quite rustic and muted at first, but after nearly an hour it gets into shape. Medium+ garnet red. Medium intensity aroma with shy fruits of cherries and plums outshined by tertiaries of toasted oak, wet earth, smoke. Medium body, attack is fresh with quite overlapping acidity which is barely tamed by fruits and sandy tannins. It has nothing left to develop here so drink up.

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