2000 Château Le Puy Cuvée Emilien

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 89 points

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  12/8/2023 - misterstarre Likes this wine: 91 Points

  To begin, this had dried out completely. It was riverbed, iron, and a little graphite and not much else, maybe some mild animale. Then slowly but surely a little cool, dark fruit came out...bruised plum. Then mint emerged, and finally, with about 2 hours of air, we had mature red fruit consisting of plum, prune, and red currant. Once it finished putting itself back together, it was very nice. Softened, but present tannins, a medium body, garnet red turning to orange at the rim. It started austere and never got anywhere close to plush. There was a tar component as well...something toasted or burnt.

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  9/30/2016 - englishman's claret wrote: 87 Points

  Chateau Le Puy Tasting: Looks rather older than it is. Alarmingly vegetal for the vintage; fair amount of blood and leather. Plenty of forest notes on the palate. I didn't care for this; a bit of a let-down for the year.

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