Score
Château Lafite Rothschild
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2003
The 2003 Lafite-Rothschild has an attractive perfumed bouquet with touches of camphor infusing the blackberry and bilberry fruit. There is a mahogany bureau hint. The palate is medium-bodied with a spicy opening. The sharp acidity slightly jars against the sweet candied black fruit, with blood orange and white pepper toward the mocha-tinged finish. It's missing a bit of sustain on the aftertaste, hence my more parsimonious score. It does cohere in the glass, so decanting will help. Tasted at the Académie du Vin dinner from ex-château magnum. (Neal Martin, Vinous, August 2023)
— a year ago
Domaine Bernard Baudry
Le Clos Guillot Chinon Cabernet Franc 2018
Raspberry coulis, blackberry juice, mushroom, violet, minerals and barnyard. Tart, explosive purple fruit, some feral, bramble notes on the structured palate, and a succession of furry, prickly tannins. Finish is smoky and bitter. Really massive and opaque, in its own way, hard to evaluate even on day 2. Expect this could gain .2 or more in score as elements resolve. — 2 years ago
Château Sociando-Mallet
Haut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend 2020
Château Lynch-Bages
Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon Blend
2005 vintage. Almost tastes like it could have been released last week. Super youthful with dark berry and plum blasts. Decent structure but not oppressive. Catching this one just below the top of the bell curve. Hopefully, you’ve got more than one bottle kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown. Other-worldly now but methinx it’s about to get even better. Last tasted in mid-June and same score but this bottle was slightly better. Seek this out-now. — 2 years ago
Château Doisy-Védrines
Sauternes Sémillon Sauvignon Blanc Blend 2007
Served with the Vinloq System from a 375ml after CNY dinner
Day 1
👃Apricots and honey🍯. Also peaches, and with time: pineapple and some light florality.
👅Peaches, tropical fruit, acetone. Hints of vanilla/oak especially on the finish.
Proper acidity and med sweetness
Alcohol not exposed. Nice 👍
Preserved in fridge under preservation gas. Sauternes resists oxidation well for multiple days or longer without preservation. However, I didn’t return to this bottle for over 4 weeks
Day 29
A new perfume note this time that I didn’t be notice on Day 1
A little more soft and rounded in character now but the same score
Still drinking nicely — 3 years ago
Château L'Evangile
Pomerol Red Bordeaux Blend 1995
A potential perfect score in future. Still dark forrest fruit — 8 months ago
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 1986
1986 vintage. Ripped through six bottles (one corked) for a 1986 BDX dinner @ Mister A's-San Diego. All bottles appropriately aged fill and decent+ corks. Double decanted and tasted over the course of 5 hours. Mix of powdery and stubborn (non-chunky) sed amongst the 6 bottles. Light-medium body throughout. Somewhat muted experience overall. None of the bottles (with variation) shone/sung. Wine is firmly on the downside of the bell curve with best days behind it (based on the 5 + corked bottle examples). There was none of the usual P-L flavor markers but the body hung in there. Pains me to say this but drink up now unless you've got a larger format bottle. Maggie (+) would probably yield a higher score. 3.14.24. — 10 months ago
Château Gazin
Pomerol Red Bordeaux Blend 2012
Appearance: Medium Garnet.
Nose: Pronounced Strawberry, Raspberry, Oak, Tobacco and Earth.
Palate: Dry. Medium Acidity. Medium Tannin. Medium Alcohol. Medium Body. Pronounced flavours of Blackberry, Plum, Cedar, Mocha, Leather and Earth. Long Finish.
Conclusion: Very Good Quality Wine.
Score: 95 — 3 years ago
John Malcolm
Rated this wine a 9.0 in 2021. Opened a magnum last night and let it breathe for several hours. Noticeably improved, so I am upping the score. — 15 days ago