1996 Château Deyrem Valentin

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  5/18/2023 - rjmp96 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Beautiful, classic styled claret. Sweet bouquet of dried cherry, red plum, tobacco, truffle, wilted violets, graphite, cigar box & leather. Light to medium bodied, very finessed & elegant. pleasing tannins & nice acid. There is some green pepper but also really nice minerality. This is delicious & an example of a style of wine we don’t see too often these days. No further development to have but held up well over these 25+ years. All about the bouquet here.

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  3/23/2023 - dimispicksix Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nice one, has aged beautifully. I will drink the remaining bottles over the next three years

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  7/13/2011 - Ian S wrote:

  This has been enjoyable but consistently a step behind the 1995 vintage to my tastes. Pleasingly lean and certainly with some greenness. An appealing drink, but lacks much in the way of complexity and I doubt there's much excitement in the years ahead, as although there is surviving fruit, it does lack the weight to suggest a better balance awaits

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  11/2/2009 - Ian S wrote:

  Still healthy, yet medium/light colour with a band of brown at the rim showing maturity.
  
  On the nose, tobacco, blackcurrant and some green pepper, with just a whisper of volatile acidity. Also a slightly surprising plummy richness on swirling.
  
  Lovely poise to the palate. Light to medium in body, with fruit light yet persistant and green pepper a pleasant accent to the fruit. Discreet tannins combine with the fruit/green pepper on the finish to give the impression of a wine primly keeping itself under control.
  
  Near the opposite end of the scale to the 'big is better, and biggest is best' school of thought (whose advocates would see this wine very differently I'm sure). Maybe a lean 'lunchtime claret' style, but a fine example of it IMO. In this context, lean has positive connotations.
  
  (from a half bottle) Certainly ready, yet it should hold well for a few more years.

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  12/5/2006 - Ian S wrote:

  Light (12% alc) but nicely balanced with good depth of colour. The tobacco notes were just a touch strong for such a light wine, but acidity was well judged and tannins had softened. No signs of obvious greenness, thought the finish was quite abrupt. All in all a very pleasant midweek wine, which I'm sure has reached it's peak. Would buy again if priced well.

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