Jeremy Shanker
Sommelier at RN74
Mouton on a budget
Mouton on a budget
9.2Adrian Bryksa
Blogger YYCWine.com, Contributor Culinaire
Nose: A clean nose with notes of vanilla, loam, wet clay, cinnamon, barnyard and cigar. Its fruit is still evident with fainter notes of cassis, cranberry, dried cherries and blood orange. Palate: Stylistically, this is more like Burgundy and less like what we know as Bordeaux today. It is carried by a wonderful core of acidity which carries the now faint primary black berry and dried red berry fruit. The secondary and tertiary characters picked up on the nose show themselves on the palate. It has good length over its finish and has a medium body with medium flavour intensity. The tannins are soft and still slightly grippy.
Nose: A clean nose with notes of vanilla, loam, wet clay, cinnamon, barnyard and cigar. Its fruit is still evident with fainter notes of cassis, cranberry, dried cherries and blood orange. Palate: Stylistically, this is more like Burgundy and less like what we know as Bordeaux today. It is carried by a wonderful core of acidity which carries the now faint primary black berry and dried red berry fruit. The secondary and tertiary characters picked up on the nose show themselves on the palate. It has good length over its finish and has a medium body with medium flavour intensity. The tannins are soft and still slightly grippy.
9.2Greg Sorensen
Armailhac is consistently a good solid play. 95 showing nice right now.
Armailhac is consistently a good solid play. 95 showing nice right now.
9.5Scott Barber
Wine Educator Meadowood Napa Valley
Side by side with the '96. I got them backwards as this was showing more fruit and depth.
Side by side with the '96. I got them backwards as this was showing more fruit and depth.
9.2David Musser
Sommelier The Little Nell
From mag.
From mag.
9.0Richard Gross
This bottle was over the hill.
This bottle was over the hill.
8.0Thomas Brenner
21 years and still beautiful. Beautiful to look at (vibrant dark red almost becoming brick-colored aged bordeaux) . All of the varietal and aged cab attributes, but with bright and tart cherries and a perfect structure and a 12+ sec finish. Always amazingly amazing.
21 years and still beautiful. Beautiful to look at (vibrant dark red almost becoming brick-colored aged bordeaux) . All of the varietal and aged cab attributes, but with bright and tart cherries and a perfect structure and a 12+ sec finish. Always amazingly amazing.
9.4Robert Rothfield
Plenty of life left in this 21 yr old
Plenty of life left in this 21 yr old
9.2Thomas Becker
Opened 2 bottles from the case that I put down for my daughter Olivia's 21st birthday last night. It is still as youthful as she is
Opened 2 bottles from the case that I put down for my daughter Olivia's 21st birthday last night. It is still as youthful as she is
9.1Matt Perlman
Mag. Medium body, ruby in color, seemed tight and maybe a little underripe at first but opened up with air to show lots of cedar and cassis
Mag. Medium body, ruby in color, seemed tight and maybe a little underripe at first but opened up with air to show lots of cedar and cassis
9.0Location
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