1928 Château Mouton-d'Armailhacq

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  11/17/2021 - KenK wrote: 87 Points

  Rezek Society Honors Hugo (Casino Club): What a treat to try a nearly 100 year old wine clearly well kept, but now faded. Good dark browning brick color leads to a aromas of autumn leaves, and intriguing dried black spices. Perhaps less interesting flavors on the palate showing oxidized character with elements of dried dark fruits and spice. So educational. Well past prime and more about tasting a piece of history. Rezek Society Dinner honoring Hugo

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  6/6/2019 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 92 Points

  Low fill, in fact only barely into the shoulder at all, but it was the last bottle in the cellar and a healthy ruby color was still visible through the thick glass, so we gave it a go. Cork comes out in one piece - it's the original cork and black as coal. The wine pours out light and pale, but still red, no browning or any sort of oxidized scents. It doesn't have much fruit left, what's there is mostly a dried, dusty cherry, but after expecting more on the entry it delivers on the back end, where the light fruit is overtaken by the stocky savoriness that only comes with full maturity alongside sensations of old wood, a mix of antique cedar spice box and decaying forestal logs, reverberating long enough on the backdraft you could almost call it perfumed. The word "retro-nasal" is used from time to time in winespeak but you'd be hard-pressed to find a better demonstration of it than this: about 50% of this wine and 100% of what's interesting about it is retro-nasal at this point. The fruit gains a bit of a boost with some airing, but not a whole lot. It peaks after about an hour and at the two hour mark even the dried cherry has segued into leaner, juicier apples which is pretty much the end-of-life stage.

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  2/24/2019 - pdrago wrote:

  Bob Mandeau's 60th Birthday.
  Experiential wine. It was essentially dead but the fact that there was still fruit was pretty impressive. Can't expect much from this.

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  6/21/2014 - rossi.wine wrote:

  Light orange/brown in colour. Unpleasant acidic notes.

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  1/11/2008 - SimonK wrote:

  Bodeaux Raritäten Probe Day 1 1864-1949 (Haus der Harmonie, Bochum, Germany): See Through Brick colourded with orange rim
  Nose is Earthy with Mushrooms and som Strawberrs
  Palate is pretty acidic

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