2008 Château La Garde

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 88.2 points

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  7/3/2022 - thewiz Likes this wine: 91 Points

  (Decanted for one hour)
  Deep red with a brick red hue and with smoothing tannins and intense warm fruit on the mature palate in a nice combination with the lovely nose showing cherries and minerals. This was drinking very well with confit de canard.
  (Best 2018-2028)

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  4/8/2022 - thewiz Likes this wine: 92 Points

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  Lovely maturity on the nose showing leather, cherries, minerals and a touch of herbs. still showing some youthful tannins on the palate with a pleasant fruitiness on the mid and some herbal notes on the lengthy finish showing a pleasant acidity.
  (Best 2018-2028)

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  12/8/2019 - thewiz Likes this wine: 90 Points

  (Decanted for two hours)
  Deep red colour with blue red hue. Nose showing an incipient maturity with leather, cedar wood and truffles and at the same time showing lots of primary fruit and oakiness. Still austere tannins on the youthful and fruity palate , but with time it starts showing herbs and some dried notes before the nice and fresh finish showing a touch of bourbon vanilla.
  (Best 2023-2033)

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  1/31/2019 - thewiz Likes this wine: 89 Points

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  Maturing nose showing sweet red berries, wet soil and some herbs in a pleasant way. Palate is still dominated by austere tannins and need more time to smooth out, hopefully enough fruit to match each other over the coming decade. This should perform better with a few more years of cellaring.
  🍷Best 2020-2025

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  7/24/2016 - MWiking Does not like this wine: 79 Points

  I must have been drunk when I was in France in May and tried this wine and thought it was great. It´s not! Its a boring Bordeaux wine with no character or finesse at all. Sorry, but at least I got 7 more bottles to use in my red wine sauce´s the following years or serve to drunk guest late at night. I don´t think this wine will improve much more. a bad wine is a bad wine

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