1999 Château Prieuré-Lichine

Community Tasting Notes (42) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  8/25/2023 - Mark van Delft Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nice matured Margaux: tobacco, leather, licorice, cherry, mint, soft vanilla, blackberry, medium body, nice dry finish. Beyond peak, drink up!

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  11/25/2022 - Jd6725 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A bit lean and funky, likely past peak. But still very drinkable. Might not have guessed it as Bordeaux.

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  9/28/2022 - PSPatrick wrote: 90 Points

  Dark garnet colour. Dark berries, dark cherry, black currant, plum, vegetal and herbaceous notes, dark cocoa, cedar, tobacco, earth, spices, liquorice, and underlying mineral tones, with lively acidity, medium-fine tannin and very good length. Finishes cocoa-bitter. Medium-bodied and loosely structured, with good complexity and average to good concentration. The wine benefits from aeration and starts to drink best after an hour in the decanter. Lightly drying on day two. Drink now and over the next six to eight years.

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  3/5/2022 - PSPatrick wrote: 90 Points

  Bottle #09015. First bottle of a case of twelve I bought recently. Dark ruby colour, some sediment. Upon opening the wine was closed, and acidic, and the tannin was drying, so I chose to decant for 90 minutes, and the wine opened up and found balance.
  
  Red and black fruit, cherry, black currant, plum, cedar, tobacco, chocolate, cocoa, spices, some cinnamon, and some liquorice, with good acidity, grippy, medium-fine tannin, and good length. Very mineral after extended aeration. Medium-bodied, medium-complex, and loosely structured, with average to good concentration.
  
  The fruit might not have enough concentration to outlive the tannin, and there is a risk that the fruit might start to dry out before the tannin fully softens. That said, for now the wine keeps improving as it breathes and drinks quite well after extended aeration (if better on day one than on day two). I would drink now (after two hours of aeration), and over the next seven or eight years, and pair the wine with a steak or rack of lamb to soften the tannin.

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  1/16/2021 - 559Cheers Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Classic left bank. Nice bottle and drinking well.

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