1955 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  6/20/2019 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points

  Sweet, old, dusty raspberry and cassis fruit with a whiff of decay but not death. Very multi-faceted; spicy accents (cardamom, anise), leather, sous-bois. Fine-boned. The nose is a little smudged, but the lack of delineation could have been from fine suspended sediment - the wine was a little cloudy.

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  11/5/2011 - pmravens wrote: 92 Points

  Really nice. Looked and tasted incredibly young, but could see a bit of cloudiness. Reserved at first without much fruit, but with a little time in the glass opened up.

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  5/16/2011 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  It showed a little cellar mustiness at first (you’d be a bit dusty too if you were couped up in a bottle for 55 years) but breathed up wonderfully well. There were truffle and mushroom notes along with teak, cedar, leather, sweet tobacco and red currants. It was bright and fresh in the mouth and gained in mid-palate weight as it sucked in more air. Tannins have all but melted into the wine but acidity remains fresh and invigorating. It was perfectly balanced and poised but was still a strong wine and baring cork failure well stored bottles of this may well still be humming in another 50 years.

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