2009 Château Duhart-Milon

Community Tasting Notes (215) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  5/4/2024 - ERU wrote: 93 Points

  4 hour decant. Had with meats and cheeses. (Meats and cheeses said together always makes me laugh. I don’t know why, but I’ve learned to take my mirth as it comes.)
  
  Great nose of red fruit, leather, and bright cedar-y stuff. It is decidedly medium bodied with a palate of red fruit, some sort of subtle spice, and a leather jacket that’s been kept in a cedar closet. It’s elegant in a way that makes me a believer—maybe sometimes I don’t want Scarface, I want the Age of Innocence.
  
  I enjoyed and appreciated this far more than my previous experience in December 2022. Look at what time can do! Heals a lot wounds, obliterates the testaments of once-great civilizations, bequeaths us jowls, and lets this fascinating juice evolve.
  
  One more bottle I have. Tagging it for 2029.

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  4/20/2024 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This is showing better than the 2005 showed four years ago, which if you do the math puts them at around the same age. But it is also surprisingly more mellow than the last time I had this vintage, which was four years prior to that, when it was super-rich, deep, and dark. This is now soft and crimson-toned with a lots of cedar seasoning (cigar-box cedar, not lead-pencil cedar). It takes about an hour or so to compose itself fully but then it's a satisfying comfort wine. Still, I kind of wonder where all that power it originally packed went?

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  4/19/2024 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Pretty classic Pauillac, if somewhat foursquare. Smooth red and black fruit and cedar finish. More cedar on the finish. No pencil shavings or cigar wrapper here. I don’t see any “ Lafiteness” here, but a nice dialed-down bottle compared to some of the more concentrated ‘09 monsters served alongside that need years of sleep. 93

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  4/18/2024 - M.Batard wrote: 92 Points

  Similar to prior note but really really needed more time in the decanter.

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  4/13/2024 - rgawlowski Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Ery, very good; still young, so it needs at least a couple of decant time; the nose is subtle, fruit seems darker than nose; very nice finish and great balance.

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