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Wine: Quinault l'Enclos -
Vintage:
1998
Region: France - Bordeaux - St Emilion
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend (Red)
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| 98 Quinault-L' Enclos (St. Emilion): plenty of toasty oak, chocolate, mocha--and dark fruit on the nose. Plenty of sweet fruit, more red than black, with coffee and tar on the palate, with those latter two qualities more dominant on the finish. Ripe tannins and a bit flabby to me but I like brighter acidity in my wines since I usually drink them with dinner. This had been decanted four hours before serving. |
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5/17/03 Quinault l’Enclos My third experience in as many years with this wine. I have been following this out of my case bought on futures. I’ve liked it in the past but can’t decide if I should hang onto them or dump them and move on.
A very dark color but definitely lighter than last year. The nose was still quite vanilla with some brambly red fruit and spice. The taste of this wine was less rich and viscous than I recall from last year. Perhaps it has shed a few pounds. Still, this is a Parker-Inspired fruit-bomb with its feet firmly in planted in the new-world order of right-bank Bordeaux. I did sense a little alcohol on the finish. The oak is omnipresent. 90 points because it is not bad. I’m still scratching my head on this one. It just leaves me somewhat uninspired. Hard to put into words. This wine confuses me.
Roberto |
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| 98 Quinault l'Enclos [St Emilion] A very black, thick oozing wine by the standards of this region. Ben, and other oakaphobes, would not be able to tolerate this at this stage of its development. The toasty vanilla flavors are very prominent. It has great fruit, and may eventually get well balanced, but for now its a hold if you don't like full bore oak. I'm a termite so I can appreciate what this has to offer. 90+ pts. |
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| 98 Quinault l'Enclos [St Emilion] Perhaps I can see why Ben was down on this. This very viscous wine had the most prominent vanilla laden oak of all the bottles we sampled. Letting this Reynaud wine air for 24 hours didn't really seem to help integrate the whole package much either. A very thick and serious wine but it's not too popular compared to these other wines. I have one of these in magnum left and I will leave it alone for a decade. If you can not wait, consider selling it. It's flashy Parker ratings will ensure a good bid somewhere for it. 90 pts. |
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| ‘98 Quinault L’ Enclos. I had this wine on release and was disappointed. This was a much better showing. I decanted this for about 3 hours which made a big difference. Opaque red-purple color. Before decanting the wine was an oak-bomb and almost undrinkable. After decanting the nose became much more Bordeaux like offering some earth and cassis with a touch of toasty oak. The palate was structured but still expressive with great merlot fruit followed by sweet tannin. The Oak seems to be integrating in this case (pardon the expression). The consensus wine of the night. This wine was clearly cut from the cloth of the Parker style. |
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| After an hour in the decanter I found it to be a deep deep ruby color with a warm nose of cherries. In the mouth it had searing tannins, but there was certainly lots of fruit burried in there too. Being my first experience with Bordeaux this young I think I finally learned the meaning to "backward," as this wine would seem to exemplify this characteristic. On the whole I'd say it has lots of potential, but is still a long way from regular consumption. I give it a preliminary score of 91, although it could certainly improve over the next 5 years or so. |
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| Aromatically, a sublimely intoxicating and complex graphite & lead pencil profile predominates…somewhat Graves like in this respect. Not obviously overoaked or "New World" in style as I have heard others describe this since its release. Somewhat shy in intensity for now, but the potential for improvement appears obvious. In the mouth, well balanced, the fruit seems a bit tight and unyielding today, tannins are smooth completely integrated with a noticeably nice acidic underpinning. The primary flavors here are completely black fuit (currant, black cherry, cassis) oriented and I readily admit my preference for these flavors. I liked it, but it didn’t blow me away…possibly a bit disappointing considering my expectations based on hype. Very Good Plus – with upward potential. Honestly, not recommended at this price point…I’d be happy if I got in before it got over $50. |
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