Winery - Château Calon-Segur
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* Expert NoteAugust 11, 2010
Quite a bit of bottle variation now with the better bottles showing a sweet and very perfumed nose, floral elements but there is more tar, chocolate, earth, smoke, and a mix of spices; sweet fruit in the mouth, mostly blackberries, cassis; powerful acidity, but well balanced; clean and light in the mouth; fully mature now, though, and definitely needs to be drunk soon. Another bottle from a different source tried later was significantly better; rich nose of candied blackberries, cassis, black currant jam, and spices; in the mouth the wine showed black cherries and sweet citrus perfectly balanced; touch earthen but silky-textured; very elegant, which is not a term that first leaps to mind with this wine, but this is the best bottle I can remember of this wine.
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
Wonderful rich nose loaded with sweet fruit and black pepper aromas, fleshy and ripe, green pepper and olive, touch of smoke; sweet fruit defines the flavors of this wine, black cherry and black plum flavors; lots of earthy basic flavors of the terroir where this wine came from; never an elegant wine, this is a really ripe and fresh set of flavors with not a lot of complexity, but a lot of pleasure. (17.5/20)
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* Expert NoteDecember 19, 2005
The wine opens with wonderful sweet and earthen aromas that literally cry out from the soil, mixing with a pleasant mélange of floral scents, black pepper, a touch of pickling spice, and smoke; sweet and ripe in the mouth with deep fruit flavors, a nice mix of earth and spices add to the mix of flavors; more lemon and citrus fruit emerges with time, but the wine remains balanced and poised despite a gradual emerging dryness; good, solid finish; always a good wine, sometimes great like in ’47, this is better than most at this stage of maturity. (18/20)
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