2005 Chateau La Vieille Cure
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Open, round, sweet, fresh and still going strong, popped and poured, this is still delivering a sensuous lush wine of pleasure. There is no need for decanting.
Punteggi della critica
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
Altre recensioni e punteggi
In this vintage, this estate (one of the leading properties in Fronsac) produced an opaque/purple blend of 75% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon from vines averaging 25 years of age. Offering beautiful black cherry and black raspberry fruit, abundant chalk, minerality, a medium to full-bodied mouthfeel, and a long finish, this over-achieving, full-throttle Fronsac is a brilliant example of the vintage and of this terroir. Give it another several years of bottle age, and drink it over the following 10-15 years. This sleeper of the vintage should prove to be one of the longest-lived vintages of Vieille Cure to date. Kudos to the ownership.
74% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon. Blackcurrant fruit is still fresh and newborn. Tannins still very prominent too, but they are softening. Developing some attractive secondary aromas – cedar, tobacco – but deserves even more age.
74% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon. Blackcurrant fruit is still fresh and newborn. Tannins still very prominent too, but they are softening. Developing some attractive secondary aromas – cedar, tobacco – but deserves even more age. (RH)