Mature red-amber color. Developed aromas of singed plum, roasted cherry, currant, tobacco, marzipan and chocolate. Fat, rich and complex in the mouth, with lovely sweetness leavened by firm acids. Fully evolved but still fresh. Very solidly structured wine but perhaps beginning to lose its grip on the end.

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Four halves, of which one was a little blighted by TCA. Very clean and dry and quite chewy. Classic St-Estèphe that certainly isn’t over the hill yet but is a little lean.

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Quite a deep red colour with only a hint of browing at the edge. Not much on the nose; a trifle musty; it was fairly dry and astringent on the palate though some red fruit appeared after a while in the glass; past its best