1986 Château Rausan-Ségla

Community Tasting Notes (217) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  4/21/2024 - englishman's claret wrote:

  Good, but a bit of a let-down, withholding the glorious floral aroma I remember from the last bottle.

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  4/5/2024 - seijaro Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Last bottle, best bottle... 45 minutes in decanter and it blossomed. Big and full but soft, a lovely mature Margaux. A treat to drink.

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  3/18/2024 - Cailles wrote: 92 Points

  Tasted double blind. This is in its prime drinking window, offering a fairly complex flavor profile and a fully melted tannin structure, but with good tension. I could drink this every day. A few points docked for a sub-par, slightly old nose.
  
  TN: The nose didn't offer the complexity and precision of the palate, it was even a bit tired. But not on the palate: Fine red berry, dark fruit, some floral aromas, spice, lots of herbs, some meaty Merlot notes, tarry minerality. Elegant, melted tannins, fresh, soft and balanced.
  
  Decanting: Quickly double decanted which was enough.

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  3/17/2024 - jonboy74 wrote: 95 Points

  excellent. still primary!! this will go a lot longer no rush on drinking these. no decant due to impatience and a late start but an hr would have done it some good

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  3/8/2024 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points

  Double-decanted. Plush with dark cherry fruit. Iron and iodine minerality and crushed white pepper. Aging notes of earth, barnyard and leather. Despite the close to 40 years of age, this came across youthful with a minty and medicinal freshness. The tannin still had grip and were slightly mouthcoating but soft in nature and mostly structural. Fresher, more red berry type of fruit on the palate. Maybe not quite at the level of my previous bottle a couple of years ago, but highly enjoyable.

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