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    1 523
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    26
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    Now
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    Beef

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The Story

Undeniably, Talbot is one of the most famous Médoc wines. This fine reputation is no doubt due to a mysterious combination of factors, such as the size of its vineyard, nearly one hundred hectares, and the regularity of its wine.  Nearly a century in the same family, the name Talbot is concise and hard-hitting, easy to pronounce in all languages and a part of our history… However, the first thing that makes Talbot popular is the wonderful natu...

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Vintage 1945

The best vintage in the world – 1947 or 1945? Tastingbook has tasted all the best wines from these two great vintages.

If wine producers from different regions were asked to name the best vintages in their wine history, most would name 1947 or 1945 as one of the greats. If we then compared them, there would probably only be one vintage that most, if not all, producers had named on the list – 1947.

We wanted to test this theory and we tas...

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The 1945 Talbot is served from a magnum reconditioned in 2007. Obviously, this is a famous vintage. Harvest began on 7 September after a season that had witnessed a late spring frost and a very hot summer. The heart of the picking fell on 13 September. Clean in colour with little signs of ageing on the rim, this upholds the gilded reputation of the vintage: a divine, alluring and sensual bouquet with pure raspberry and wild strawberry aromas wafting from the glass, underpinned by pot pourri and cedar aromas. The palate is quite sweet on the entry with orange zest infusing the red fruit. The tannins feel firm – a good backbone to this Talbot and although it is not the most precise or profound 1945 that I have encountered on the hoisin-tinged finish, there is satisfying salinity and vigour. I just wonder whether this might have been kept in barrel too long, like the 1945 Gruaud Larose? Here, outclassed by the charm of the 1947 Talbot. Tasted at the centenary Château Talbot vertical at the property.

  • 92p

Talbot (magnum) 1945 – old flavours, the fruit was in a very advanced danger of disappearing and the wine getting volatile. 86p.

  • 86p
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St. Julien, Bordeaux
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