October 24, 2013 – Wine: 2003 Clos Les Lunelles Cotes du Castillon

This was one of my early successful Bordeaux forays.  I bought this wine out of curiosity and rating (92 points) and opened one soon after.  I was sufficiently impressed with the wine’s potential to pick up four half bottles to work through over time.  I opened the next in March 2011 and then another in August 2012.  This wine has improved its balance and integration over the years.  Now it is developing complexity and intensity.  Tonight’s bottle was fairly smooth and well balanced, with flavors of tobacco, black currant, salty mineral, smoke, lead, and subtle notes of cherry on the finish.  One half-bottle remains … next year perhaps?

2003 Clos Les Lunelles Cotes du Castillon