2020 Château Gruaud Larose

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  12/28/2023 - ayalao3 wrote: 95 Points

  Fresh red fruit, nice acidity, thoroughly enjoyable but wait 5-7 years if you can.

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  11/24/2023 - wineappellation Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Expresso, mocha, bell pepper, good minerals. Finishing a bit short.

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  11/11/2023 - iBurg1229 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Vintage Wine - Bordeaux Tasting 11/11/23: 13.5% ABV. Deep ruby appearance.
  
  Notes of blackberry, black plum, cassis, tobacco leaf, toast, smoke, dark chocolate, nutmeg. Oak still very prominent. Polished tannins but still a ways away from resolving. Good level of acidity helps provide an elegant mouthfeel and carries the flavors into a fine length of finish.
  
  I like the fruit concentration and spice character this shows. This needs to lay down for a while to integrate the oak and round out the tannins, but this will be a force when the time comes. 95 point potential.

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  7/5/2023 - englishman's claret wrote: 96 Points

  The 2020 Gruaud Larose is an explosive wine, packed full of fig, cassis, boysenberry, and plum - yet for all its intensity, the fruit doesn’t stray into overripeness. This is so fresh, crisp, and long. I love the potpourri, pencil, and licorice notes that slowly emerge. There’s plenty of tannin in the mouth and it will take time to integrate, but the slow burn of purple fruit and pencil this shows on the finish makes a statement: Gruaud Larose is back. 2020 has produced the best Gruaud Larose since the 1982 and 1986 and I do think it seems destined to end up in conversations which include the 1928 and 1961. But this is substance and not flash - and it will take at least 20 years to really start showing all of its glory.
  
  79 CS, 17 M, 4 CF
  
  95-96 (+?)

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  3/21/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  Cigar box, smoke, herbs, cassis, espresso and blackberries with a savory edge open the wine aromatically. The palate offers freshness, layers of ripe, spicy currants and peppery blackberries with chewy tannins that really hang with you, providing length, vibrancy and refinement in the finish. This is going to age and evolve for decades. Drink from 2027-2060.

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