Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

Short notes.
Had this with roast beef for Sunday lunch.

Fine deep color looking about right for its age.

Nose: subtle to the point of being too subtle, i.e. not much there. Some vanilla and plum aromas, but not many... Also a curious iodine/salt air smell.

Palate: pretty disappointing. More of a bruiser than your usual Margaux with strong, rough tannin on the finish. There is a basic imbalance here in that there are constituents of the wine that are not ready, and that will improve over time, but everything leads me to believe that the wine will dry out by then.
Neither gracious, nor voluptous like many 2000s.

Alex R.

I liked the 2005 Siran on release, but it had a boatload of gritty tannins to resolve. Siran was one of my first chateau visits as an undergrad in 1994, I think we bought a case of the 1989 which we thought was sensational.

I'm not sure I've had one of these before.

There was a 2000 tasting in London last week, and many of the wines were pretty awkward still...I was down to go but had to pull out...by all accounts still an ugly duckling vintage it seems. However I recently tried four wines which I own and I was pretty impressed with their potential: Ducru (drinking 2020 on, Leoville Barton drinking 2022 on, Lynch Bages, drinking 2025 on, and Palmer, drinking after 2030).

Still a bottle of 1998 cellared here. My dad and I drank plenty of these before his death in 2005. Siran has a special place in the heart, but not Always because of sheer quality...