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Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 95.7 points

  • Beginning of the Year Dinner at Craft. Fantastic bottle. Still fruit present but loads of spice box, pipe tobacco, pencil shavings. Held up in the glass. Remarkable for its age.

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  • Small friends gathering - 90 La Tache, 12 Coche CC, 37 Mouton in mag and etc. (Officina - Washington D.C.): I acquired five magnums from Christie’s auction in 2014 knowing that the previous owner acquired them from Ader Tajan auction, Des Trésors de la Cave de Maxim's, June 4, 1997, Lot 236. This is the first magnum that I am opening. The color is incredibly youthful and the fills are above top shoulder or better. Pop and pour, beautiful shy red fruit, cherry and strawberry, strong sous bois, leather, cedar and spearmint. With air, the nose gets sweeter and more complex. Hedonistic incredibly complex nose displaying subtle yet decadent slightly dry red fruit, strong sous bois, cedar, leather, truffle, caramel, spearmint, cinnamon, blood, a hint of lead pencil and earth. Perfectly integrated palate, very finely layered subtle red fruit, silky and weightless, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, no noticeable tannins and a seamless incredibly long finish with cinnamon, cedar and leather at the end. It gets sweeter and sweeter as the night goes on. The palate is so silky and weightless, deceptively light/watery, yet the fruit is unbelievably sweet and intense. It constantly transforms. When a really old wine shows well, it becomes a truly emotional and spiritual experience. Incredible showing.

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  • Birthday dinner at Bern's. Sadly, this was dead on arrival. Very low fill (low shoulder) and brown color. There was an aroma that this was once wine, and the bouquet was not off-putting, but was expressed vinegar and it was bitter on the palate. We gave it 10 minutes in the glass to see if anything magical would blossom, but it didn’t. Undrinkable. Cool bottle to collect as a trophy, but wine was no good. As always, the somm at Bern's was great about handling the situation.

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  • Pale ruby tea in color, this was completely charming. Light in color, density and fruit, absolutely. But it was hard to resist the smoky, cherry pipe tobacco, forest leaf, spice, and sweet, cherry nose. The wine felt soft, graceful and polished with the patina of age that comes from 8 decades of cellaring.

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  • Very low fill. This either didn't make it through 77 years or was never right to begin with. Muddy, clipped, citric, just off. Only acid left on the palate.

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  • By Neal Martin
    Cellar Journal: Bordeaux 1920-2015 (Dec 2019), 12/1/2019, (See more on Vinous...)

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