WTN: Squawk Bocqs

[Jenise]

With apologies for my title to watchers of CNBC:

2003 Petit Bocq, Ste Estephe
Aromatic ripe cassis nose with violets and tobacco shows off the warm-vintage merlot, but it's drier and less giving on the palate with more tannnin than fruit on the finish. Really needed food to show well, was slightly astringent without. My only bottle so I'll never know, but I can't see this maturing past here into the pretty thing the 2000 has become.

[David M. Bueker]

As you say, no more data points, but 5 years on always seems to be a tough time to sample Bordeaux.

[Jenise]

As you say, no more data points, but 5 years on always seems to be a tough time to sample Bordeaux.

I was sitting there scratching my chin over "five years on" and then I realized--OOPS. Not 2009, it's 2003. Will edit.

[David M. Bueker]

Well at nearly 11 it is likely one of those 2003s that was on the wrong end of the balance beam to begin with, and now that the youthful fruit is gone there is nowhere to go but down.

My Kirwan was decidedly more satisfying.

[Jenise]

Well at nearly 11 it is likely one of those 2003s that was on the wrong end of the balance beam to begin with, and now that the youthful fruit is gone there is nowhere to go but down.

My Kirwan was decidedly more satisfying.

Yup. Not surprising. I basically skipped that vintage. Bought four: Pontet Canet because I want a bottle of every PC ever made, Brane Cantenac for a sentimental reason, Mouton because I found it at Costco cheap, and this singleton because I tripped over it somewhere.