1995 Château L'Arrosée

Community Tasting Notes (40) Avg Score: 91.0 points

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  9/18/2023 - CarpeDiem! Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A decidedly old school SE, perfectly melting mature red berries, noble cask aromas, club seat leather, chocolate and tobacco. Very smooth and silky. Although thinning out in the finish the bottle was a wonderful journey back to a glorious past of classical Bordeaux.

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  12/28/2022 - JJKinch wrote: 92 Points

  Dark fruit (black cherry, blackberry), spice, earth, slight forest floor, slight mushroom, slight leather. Good acidity. Lingering finish. Really enjoyable. 92+
  
  Opened an hour or so before drinking. Did not decant.

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  2/6/2022 - Willi Vinotti Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I would still see this in a pretty perfect space these days. Bottles was in pristine condition, cork not soaked at all. If anything, it gained refinement without losing power of the past years since the last bottle. So this comes velvety, jammy, with aged Bdx notes of mushrooms, forest floor and herbal notes. Also nice leather and faint cinnamon notes accompanying a very nicely balanced finish with still vibrant acidity. Good length for a surprising 12.5 ABV. For good bottles, I would see no hurry to drink, but potentially also not much gain waiting more.
  
  If it is not to have some memories of this foregone chateau. I loved the 1989 and it still does not feel right to discontinue this elegant saint emilion….specially as the Quintus it was merged into clearly is a “modern” wine, stronger, more extracted and higher in alcohol and built to please the tasters connected to the “mother” chateau (Haut Brion)… so easy to see how the marketing works, and sad that this illustrious little name disappeared.

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  12/15/2021 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Enjoyed over 2 nights while tasting 6 other wines, notes posted. This wine has always been a favorite of mine since 1985. It has been merged with Chateau Tertre Daugay into Chateau Quintus in 2013 although they controlled the 2011 vintage.
  This bottle of 1995 shows excellent cellaring at 60 degrees F but sadly shows its age. As of today, about 230 bottles of this are listed on Cellartracker and probably should be consumed immediately IMO.
  Enjoy it now and earn your cellar time reward!!!

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  12/15/2021 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Two 1999 Cortons Tasted (Yan's China Bistro, Walnut Creek, Ca.): Nose of black berry, fragrant spring bouquet, hints of barnyard and allspice and cigar box, on the palate, big body, tasty, enjoyed over 3 nights, mouth filling fruit, at peak, drinking well, suggest you enjoy now, rich, long finish and lovely aftertaste, photo uploaded.

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