Chateau de Lescours, Saint-Emilion

Note: I use the recommended scale, so 85 represents a very good wine. For this bottle, it was almost as if time had stood still. My TN from 5 1/2 years ago still applies, almost word for word. Smooth, easy drinkin'.

Very sharp on first tasting, but beautiful evolution after decanting and pouring. Leather and spice on the nose; dark cherry and cocoa on the palate. A deeply enjoyable experience. Drink now and be sure to decant.

Pleasurable wine from Pierre Chariol and Chateau Lescours. Wine is fully integrated and ready to drink. I really enjoy Pierre's wine and look forward to another bottle. This wine is certainly not a wine that is super complex but it is enjoyable.

Note: I use a rating scale for which 85 represents a very good wine. Seamless. Like red water. Smooth, no edges. Not a challenging wine, but a pleasure to drink.

The wine was tight as a drum and lots of swirling in the glas just started to loosen it up, but we probably should had decanted for at least 2 hours. Big fruit and tar flavors that just overwhelmed the rest of the features. Finish was acidic and a tight almost bitter tannin. This wine needed to be left asleep for at least 5 more years.

This was much better than I expected. Dark garnet color with fine sediment. Dark red fruit, currants, earthy, cigar box notes on the nose. Plum and black cherry flavors on the palate with a touch of pencil shavings and bitter coffee on the back end. Medium acid. Not much left in the tannin department but not totally soft either. Very smooth on the palate and finished with decent length. Quite good for the money paid. Definitely no reason to hold …

- Brick color - a very nice mature Bordeaux with licorice and mint notes

Decent Bordeaux at a pretty reasonable state of development. Tannins pretty well integrated, fruit emerges after a little time. Give this at least an hour to open up. Worth the wait. Day 2 -- the fruit was pretty much gone. Finish in a day or seal in container with no oxygen.

Medium garnet color with a tawny rim. Hot nose of green pepper, damp leaves and black currant. More green flavors on the palalte, though it does show some depth of fruit. 50+4+9+12+5=80

Poor. It got the sink treatment.