Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend

Deep fruit still. Full of life and deep gnarly tangy plum. Great stuff

Vintage 1995 | Vanilla, forrest wood, true to type, well balanced but also tannins - very good effort

Like the Roger Miller song “I’ve Been A Long Time Leaving, Now I’ll Be A Long Time Gone”.
Cork held up and came out smooth. Garnet/ruby color. Nose is old and green. Sous bois, tomato vine, and marrow. Fine silky texture. Would’ve guessed Loire Cabernet Franc in a blind. Past peak, but still fascinating to pick apart the development.

Blend of 79% Cabernet, 14% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc, deep Ruby with rich fruit aromas. On the palate flavors of blackberry and currants, with notes of licorice, tobacco, some floral and spicy oak. Fine tannins, long finish, ending with fruit, oak and spice. Nice but needs more bottle age, should last another 10 years. Nice!

Meaty and dense in the nose. Tobacco and leather. A whiff of iodine and a savory and still there palate. Some fresh and pretty fruit still which is kinda epic. Fascinating

Excellent structure, rich fruit, very lively for its age. Nicely integrated. Aromas of pencil lead, dark fruit and coffee grounds. Drank w AK when GrandEl was in town.

It’s all there for the St Julien … still has length too … just wish it was more expressive and complex.

UGCB 1/27/23 Mint, spice. Intense berry fruit

Medium minus concentration of garnet color. BRETT. Roasted green bell pepper, tart tomato leaves, hawthorn, iodine, dried tea leaves, oregano, bay leaf, blood/sanguine. Medium acidity, dissolved medium+ tannins, medium+ finish.

perfume of dark berries, currant , damson plum , razzles, kretek, pansies , violets and maybe roses

soft n velvety , juicy n tart
red n black fruit , plum, graphite n iron

finishing w some green dill, menthol, eucalyptus

2hrs in ROCKIN ~ 3 hrs in starts to close down