2016 Château La Serre

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90 points

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  3/10/2022 - ikkaariainen Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Score based on current tasting experience. With much more time and proper maturation my guess is that this is eventually actually a 91-92 point wine. Good wine and a reasonable QPR at our acquisition cost but VERY young right now, born out by fact that on the 3rd day after 2 days of refrigeration this wine had actually significantly improved. 1st of 12 bottles, tasted for maturation and I will wait 3-5 years before trying the next one. Definitely hold not drink right now, not even with a long decant - this wine is just not quite ready yet. I would strongly recommend waiting at least 3-5 more years before thinking of this and given the very solid tannins and acidic fruit core currently present it will probably have at least a good 5-7 years if not longer after that. Tannic, medium bodied, acidic, somewhat disjointed and very fruit forward but all the ingredients are there for significant improvement with further integration, balancing and softening. Right now interestingly black pepper is quite strong on the nose and both black tea and black pepper are significant on the palate.

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  10/2/2021 - respier1 wrote:

  Medium bodied, medium length, juicy with cherry flavours, fresh and clean. Porobably 1-2 yrs early

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  7/31/2020 - matt.gordon5000 wrote: 90 Points

  It certainly wasn't bad, wasn't great. Not enough tanic structure for my tastes. Pretty forgettable. Maybe it just needs a few years to mature up a bit. Not optimistic, but we'll see again in 3 years.

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  7/1/2020 - djchango77 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nose; Cherry Tart, toasty with some wet mushroom, roasted eggplant, mint & soft raked earth. Palate; Fine tannin and moderate acidity. Blue & black fruit with menthol, black tea, soy and a long mineral finish.

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  9/21/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 Points

  Medium bodied, bright and with loads of sweet cherries and licorice on the palate, the wine is juicy, clean and fresh.

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