2003 Château Malescot Saint-Exupéry
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The 2003 Malescot Saint Exupéry is showing some bricking on the rim. The nose is fully-mature with brown spices, touches of cooked meat, vestiges of red fruit and a light ferrous element. The palate is medium-bodied with sour cherry on the entry, light for a 2003, with some drying tannins towards the austere, slightly vinegary finish. I would drink this sooner rather than later. Tasted at the château.
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Showing no signs of age, this fully mature, dark plum/ruby-colored 2003 offers notes of forest floor, spring flowers, spice box and tobacco leaf. It possesses all the finesse one would expect, which is surprising in such a hot year. This medium-bodied Margaux should continue to drink well for a decade or more.
Intense and mineral and very drying on the end. Some energy here. Desperately needs food though to mitigate that minerality on the finish. (Average group score: 15.8) (JR)