2003 Château Clément Saint-Jean

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 86.3 points

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  9/3/2012 - euroyup wrote: 86 Points

  (Kept under condition 2 since august 2007, see profile.) Popped and poured. Color: a bit orange-brown, especially at the rims. Nose: fruit, fresh baked bread and some roses. Taste: some cherry(-liquor), some chocolate and a hint of liquorice. The fruit is fainting and the other flavours are not very lively any more. This bottle was clearly over its top. 86.

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  1/29/2012 - euroyup wrote: 87 Points

  Popped and poured. Nose: leather. Taste: some nice floral notes and a hint of chocolate, some fruitiness, but les than the last time (see my note of 11-10-23). Secondary flavours are more prominent this time (with beef). At the second day (with porc) more fruit, with black cherries, and more harmonious and balanced. Nice complexity. The alcohol-level of 13,5% was not disturbing like last time. A boire. 87-88.

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  10/23/2011 - euroyup wrote: 85 Points

  Popped and poured. Nose: some fruit, mushrooms. Taste: rather good fruit, especially cherries. Not very complex and not very much depth, but for 5,95 Euro a surprisingly rich, big, rather concentrated wine. Compared with other tastings this time the high alcohol (13,5 %) was prominent, indeed a bit to much. Is this wine already over the top? 85.

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  3/6/2011 - euroyup wrote: 87 Points

  Decanted for half an hour. After decanting shortly very lively fruit on the nose, in the glass rather mute. Taste: rather good fruit, with chocolate, no oak. At the second day with laurel and still more body. Not very complex and not very much depth, but for 5,95 Euro a surprisingly rich, big, rather concentrated wine, maybe lacking only a bit of acidity; typical for the hot year 2003, I guess. A boire now, has developed well since my first note (09-07-08), but I doubt whether this will develop further. 86-87.

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  7/8/2009 - euroyup wrote:

  Smell: classic Medoc. Taste: fruity and with a promising, lively power. The wine has not ripened on oak, which is a prominent feature and seems to make that this wine has an open character. On the second day the wined has opened up still more, so that it shows a certain grandeur. It is probably rather young and hard to score now. Really good QPR at 5,95 Euro at the chateau. Still four bottles left, so I am curious how it will develop over years. Interesting is, that the same wine is marketed after having ripened on oak under the name Le Grand Art. I preferred this one already above Le Grand Art (see there) at the tasting in 2007, and conclude now the more, that this was rightly.

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