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2011 Bordeaux from the Bottle (Jul 2014)

Medium bright ruby. Black cherry, blackberry, flint and violet on the tangy nose. Lively, juicy and firm, with coffee and cocoa accents to the black fruit flavors. Not especially fleshy or complex but pure and penetrating, with building austerity. This moderately long, firmly tannic wine appears to be built to age but I wonder if…

2001, 2000 and 1999 Bordeaux (May 2002)

Bright medium ruby. Perfumed aromas of cassis, blackberry, boysenberry and licorice. Smooth and dense for this wine, with ripe, sweet dark berry flavors enlivened by firm acids. Shows a hint of St. Estephe toughness but also boasts lovely purity of fruit. Finishes with fine, dusty tannins. This appears stronger than the 2000 did at the…

Bordeaux 2018: Not Back in Black (Mar 2021)

The 2018 La Conseillante is a regal and utterly exquisite Pomerol from the very first taste. Technical Director Marielle Cazaux and her team turned out a jewel of a wine. Silky tannins and lifted, precise aromatics make a strong first impression. Inky dark fruit, pain grillé, lavender, spice, menthol and a kiss of new French…

The Future’s Definitely Not What It Was: Bordeaux 2018 (Mar 2021)

The 2018 La Conseillante was given a two-hour decant and then monitored over the following 12 hours. What a stupendous Pomerol! It has a bravura nose that immediately seduces the olfactory senses, delivering a cornucopia of black cherries, cassis, crushed violets and iris. Such intensity here, and then it blossoms, accentuating its floral component while…

The Annual Red Bordeaux Report (May 2005)

Bright dark red. Cool aromas of raspberry, cherry, violet, minerals and licorice. Lively, fresh and perfumed, with fruit-driven flavors of raspberry, cherry and minerals. A juicy, stylish wine with delicacy of fruit and fine tannins. This could easily be mistaken for Burgundy

Purple Reign: La Conseillante 1966-2015 (May 2018)

The 1997 La Conseillante is showing some bricking on the rim, not unexpected given it is over 20 years old now. The nose is fully mature, loose-knit and showing more woody aromas than fruit. I wonder if too much new oak was used in its youth? The palate is fully mature with melted tannin and…