1961 Château Puy-Blanquet

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91 points

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  10/17/2021 - Cailles wrote: 90 Points

  30x 1955 & 1961 (mostly Bdx): Tasted single blind. Bombastic on the nose, great mature claret. But then quite sour on the palate. This is the story of this wine. 96 pts on the nose, 87 on the palate. So 90 pts overall?
  
  TN: Wonderful mature Bordeaux nose with tobacco, wet forest floor, some truffles, old leather and some brett notes as well as some dark fruit underneath. Nicely clean and precise. Easily 96 pts on the nose, only a bit more sweet fruit was missing for a quite perfect nose. Sadly the palate did not show as good. On the attack and mid palate there is good power and tension with red and dark fruits and many of the same tertiary aromas but towards the finish there is an intense astringency which make it quite unpleasant.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, no extensive decanting needed.

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  9/20/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 92 Points

  Grand 1961 vs 1955 vintage tasting (Fribourg): Big 1961 vs 1955 tastings including 10 direct match-ups and 11 individual wines from 1961. The tasting was conducted in flights of 4, single-blind and with no previous decant with all bottles opened 1h prior to start. The line-up was dominated by Bordeaux reds, but also included 5 Sauternes, 1 Champagne, 3 Burgundy reds and 1 Ribera del Duero. The following observations are worth mentioning: i) 1961 generally came across as a better vintage today than 1955, ii) the performance correlated with the 1855 classification, iii) The most outstanding wines were outside of the Bordeaux reds with Veuve Clicquot Rosé '61, Vega Sicilia Unico '61 (both 97) and La Tour Blanche '61 (96) worth mentioning, iv) Top-performing Bordeaux was Margaux (95) in 1961 and Mouton in 1955. List of wines included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  Ripe red and blue berry fruit providing for a clearly much younger appearance. Fresh green herbs and mocha come on top while aging notes gathered more in the background. The palate was bursting with energy, fruit, vibrancy. However, a pretty tangible tannin structure which will probably never really integrate.

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