2004 Château Lynch-Moussas

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  2/24/2024 - Cailles wrote: 83 Points

  Bordeaux 2004 - 20 Years On - 33 Reds: All wines tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) 2004 is a mediocre vintage overall, with many pleasant wines, but without the depth of better years. 2) At the top, the vintage produced some classic, old-school wines with lots of freshness and fresh fruit. 3) At the lower end, many wines lacked fruit and ripe tannins, resulting in some astringent and slightly drying wines. 4) An alarming number of Right Bank wines (5 out of 16, no Left Bank wine) were oxidized, including some heavyweights like Petrus, Evangile or Figeac. An unacceptably high proportion of faulty wines. 5) I’m not sure that the 2004 are currently in a good phase, many of my scores were lower than in previous tastings. The question is if it’s just a weaker phase or the beginning of the end. 6) At the top and the only wine >95pts was a layered Le Pin (rated 96pts), with a charming Vieux Chateau Certan, a surprising Issan and Clos l'Eglise, as well as an elegant Lafite sharing second place (all rated 94pts).
  
  TN: Late in the tasting, I didn’t take detailed notes anymore. One of the weakest wines of the tasting, this felt quite astringent and without much expression. 83pts is rather generous (for a bit of a fruity bouquet) but take that with a grain of salt as the wine came in late in the tasting.

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  8/26/2023 - Helianthe Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Magnum bottle, nice fruit, deep color and rich palate. Absolutely perfect time to drink now.

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  4/26/2023 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 91 Points

  From a difficult vintage, looks like in a great spot right now, lots of matured and loved tertiaries of smoky, meaty and mushroomy notes. Deep garnet colour. Pronounced aroma of cassis, smoke, graphite, cured meat, dried violets, cedar, leather. Medium+ body, intense flavours of smoky meat, cassis, barnyard, mushrooms, high acidity, finely grained high tannins, saline edges.

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  11/14/2022 - DontPanic Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Couleur très sombre, nez de fruits noirs et d’épices, en bouche la même chose + un côté un peu tabac/viande. Bon!

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  6/27/2021 - chatters wrote:

  Gently decanted and consumed over 2 hours with Sunday lunch; roast beef, vegetables, cauliflower cheese. Aromas of leather, earth, brambles, Autumn leaves, farmyard, wild blackcurrant...very Gentleman's club Claret. Savoury, grainy tannins dry the mid-palate, wet and Autumnal with slightly smoky notes, leather and brambles. Deeply pleasing and reassuring. Lovely.

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