1999 Chateau Musar

Community Tasting Notes (687) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  5/13/2024 - presterjohn wrote:

  Orangey nose, huge rich mouth, old fruit but not fading, vibrant, beautiful, luscious, quite tannic, will last a long time. Lovely wine, not particularly complex but very satisfying

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  3/31/2024 - johnrm Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A slightly paler colour than the 2003 tasted at the same time. Perfect cork - but I use the 2-pronged ‘butler’s friend’ corkpull for all old bottles of wine (See notes on Musar website for the device - widely available).
  [Decanted slowly through a fine filter to remove the solid sediment. I always keep the inevitable fine powdery sediment late in the decant separate. I filter the last few ml (including any fine sediment) into a separate glass for an early taste.]
  Good from the off but much better, as usual, after 5+ hours in the decanter.
  It is still amazingly youthful and showed all the attractive sweet dark cherry and dark plum fruit and spice as in my previous note of 8 years ago. It continued to evolve in the glass over time. It has aged beautifully. Excellent structure, balance, and length. No VA.
  Earlier notes are worth a look. Seeing the happy expressions on the faces of my wife and sons at dinner, we stopped trying to describe the subtleties and complexity of this wine and simply enjoyed it. No rush to drink your stocks!

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  3/30/2024 - Puteljen! Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A heady, classic nose of cassis, blueberries, cherries and blackberries. A bit of sandalwood, cinnamon and cloves. Very light VA, but much less than previous bottles. On the palate quite smooth and polished with generous fruit, medium structure and body and lots of detail. Medium+ lenght. This bottle is drinking surprisingly young.

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  2/13/2024 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points

  Dry and crumbly cork that doesn’t hold upto the corkscrew. Mid garnet with some vestiges of ruby at the core. Spicy notes beneath the VA, that mix of spice, some red fruit and acetone. Lovely texture, fully evolved with a spot of glycerin enhancing the texture, quite long, and a touch of heat on the finish. Good, but let’s see how it holds up overnight. Similar the next evening in terms of flavour and texture, but now minus the obvious volatility on the nose. Last glass all but wiped out by very fine, hazy sediment. ****

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  2/9/2024 - Eric wrote:

  Mamnoon: Provencale herbs. Touch of VA. Warm and bright with cherry, earthy on the back end. This softens and gets warmer with air, strawberry preserve, baking spice.

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