1967 Château Guiraud
Community Tasting Note
Cailles wrote:
Monday, July 19, 2021 - 15 Mature Bordeauxs Magnums (with Heitz MV in the mix): The tasting was concluded with three sweet wines. All from magnum. Winner was the La Tour Blanche 1945 (95 pts) which showed wonderfully mature with a beautiful fruit sweetness, balanced by a superb freshness and lots of tertiary development. Quite similar with a bottle of Yquem 1948 (98 pts) we had the day before with a little bit less of everything. The Guiraud 1967 (91 pts) was fresh, complex and balanced but didn’t had a desired level of purity with a lot of chemical notes showing. Tasted blind, the rare Gantenbein Vin de Paille 1997 (92 pts), showed very layered, sweet, balanced by a very good freshness but showed port-like ripeness and aroma profile which I just don’t like.
TN: Very ripe profile on the nose and palate with lots of apricots and a bit of citrus as well as some spices. It seems quite a bit younger with a high freshness. Instead of a nice saffron-like boytritis, this shows a lot of chemical and hard liquor notes as well as some wet cardboard scents you can often find in (not so well-made) Sauternes. Many might like that, but I don’t.
Decanting: Not decanted. I guess this could have used a lot of air.
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