1999 Château Bel Air-Marquis d'Aligre

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 92 points

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  4/15/2024 - Vas19 wrote: 91 Points

  Nice nose with some red berries, green pepper, and coffee. Palate shows some aged notes, but still has nice acidity, and a little bit of unresolved tannin. Might age my next bottle about 5 years.

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  4/2/2024 - LoireFan wrote:

  Very pleasing.

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  12/25/2023 - tastark Likes this wine:

  Our first experience with BAMA. Appears to be a recent library release as it had a new cork and label. This is classic Bordeaux and very enjoyable. That said, it seems to be on the decline and was showing signs of oxidation. Drink up.

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  10/4/2023 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- decanted approx. 1 hr. before initial taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over approx. 1.5 hrs. --
  
  NOSE: baked raspberry; some aged Bdx. leather, as well as a background mineral element; smoky beef jerky; pretty expressive, and also high-toned.
  
  BODY: ruddy garnet color of medium to medium-deep depth; medium bodied.
  
  TASTE: meaty -- smoky beef jerky; medium+ acidity; no tannin; hint of pyrazine; strikes me as at peak, unless you like your aged Bdx. to taste like black tea, in which case keep waiting. Ash guessed "California." It's certainly *not* "pretty Margaux." If served blind, I *might* get to Bdx. on account of "aged Bdx. funk/leather, and hint of pyrazines," but -- more than anything else -- this reminds me of a Cayuse Syrah with about 10 years on it. Drink Now.

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  9/17/2023 - jviz wrote: 93 Points

  Really nice vintage of BAMA. I was pleased at how it showed with only half an hour in the decanter. Opens with intense paprika and pimentos, shifts to redcurrant fruit, leather and blond tobacco. Pretty stern acids, but interesting and attention grabbing, and ultimately very good.

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