1999 Vérité La Muse

Community Tasting Notes (126) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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  2/16/2024 - Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 97 Points

  I try not to repeat rate but for this one I have to rate it with an exclamation point. This is definitely one of my top 5 all time wines. So balanced, plenty of fruit, complex, smooth and silky on the palate with a long finish.

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  12/29/2023 - rmcnees wrote: 92 Points

  At twenty-four years, the label, foil and most importantly the cork were all in pristine condition. The wine was likely at its peak, but not likely to improve further with more age.
  
  Garnet colored, medium bodied, complex yet balanced, integrated, elegant and polished, soft and smooth black and red currant and plum fruits highlighted with notes of cedar, tobacco, expresso and hints of leather and forest floor turning to smooth fine and mildly sweet tannin.
  
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  12/29/2023 - Indywinefan Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Age showing with leather. Still drinking very well.

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  7/19/2023 - golfwine wrote: 91 Points

  Had to Vinturi and decant, but only because I obliterated the cork when trying to open it. Much to my surprise, it was actually a good call. The last two bottles, were tired at best and gone, at worst. This one, with the aforementioned treatment, seemed to blossom with each glass. The oxidation mellowed and a marked level of acidity, as well as some structured tannins, emerged. Pretty impressive, actually.

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  6/17/2023 - enthusiastic_amateur wrote: flawed

  Day 1: First half of the bottle. Dark fruits on the palate, very ripe. Smooth through mid-palate with a touch of bite on the finish. Couldn't decide if it was phenolic bitterness, alcohol or tannin, but definitely something disturbing the otherwise smooth and luxurious mid-palate. Somewhat muted nose, expected more floral notes of dark fruits with this level of dark color. Overall enjoyable -- 92 pts.
  
  Vacuum sealed for one day.
  
  Day 2: some funk smell which was undetected the prior day. Like to call this "basement". Not TCA, did not hit those marks. But definitely something wrong with the wine.
  
  Shame. This is the 3rd or so bottle consumed from their early vintages with this kind of non-corked-but-funkiness notes.

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