Diner with my brother and some other friends last Sunday, good time to open some Bordeaux.
00 Clos Fourtet: still dark red, nose of tobacco, prunes, rasberries, oak vanilla, dark red berries. In mouth, big, ripe, seductive, lost of creamy dark berries, ripe tannins, light chocolate. Thick with a long finish. An exçellent wine, with 10 more years to go. Tn: 90-91+.
02 Clerc Milon: dark red color, nose with a light green végétal touch, but with strong blackcurrants, darkberries, graphite and minerals. In mouth, more structure, more acidity, more grip than the St-Émilion. Medium blackcurrant and blackberries, ready to go, with a niçe old leather and lead pencil finish. Tn: 91.
Two different and excellent Bordeaux. It was difficult to prefer one to the other, even if very different wines.
Nic
00 Clos Fourtet and 02 Clerc Milon
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Mmmmm I can taste the lead pencil on that 2002 Clerc Milon from here.
Those who don't understand 2002L don't know what they're missing!
Those who don't understand 2002L don't know what they're missing!
Re: 00 Clos Fourtet and 02 Clerc Milon
I have not opened any of my 02's. I do have some Clerc Milon and look forward to the Dixon #2 pencil shavings of my youth.
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Those sound great. Nice times indeed.
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Many thanks Nic.
I have a case of the Clos Fourtet 2000. Would you say it is a bit over the top? As in being a bit too modern and extracted. My eyebrow raised, Roger Moore style, on your reference to prunes ... seems like there is no hurry to drink these.,
I have a case of the Clos Fourtet 2000. Would you say it is a bit over the top? As in being a bit too modern and extracted. My eyebrow raised, Roger Moore style, on your reference to prunes ... seems like there is no hurry to drink these.,
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