2002 Charmail
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Bright red-ruby. Very ripe aromas of smoked meat and tomato. Fat, lush and sweet, with enticing redcurrant and tobacco flavors. Finishes with dusty tannins that turned a bit dry with aeration.
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An elegant, pretty effort, the 2002 offers up scents of smoke, black cherries, cassis, and earth. It possesses medium body, fine depth, a savory texture, and excellent purity. Drink it over the next 6-7 years.
(the wine had just finished its long settling in tank and was still cloudy; Seze bottles without fining or filtration) Ruby-red. Spicy aromas of currant and espresso. At once smooth and vinous, with flavors of currant and leather complicated by nutty oak. Offers less verve and thrust than the young 2003, but then this is still a bit disturbed. Finishes with good length.
Attention-grabbing colour. Extremely deep, blackish crimson. Very full, sweet and overdone. Lacks freshness. (JR)