seeking clarification on aged bordeaux question

[Thomas]

newsguy, not to be hard on them, but you are placing too much value on WS opinions...

If you look at Jancis Robinson's good wine encyclopedia (Oxford) you will likely read that one of the expected characteristics from the Cabernet crowd is green pepper; even in wine produced from reasonably ripe grapes it can be detected by an astute (if that's the word) nose. Perhaps, you have an astute nose and the guys at WS who reported on the wine either do not, or had other reasons not to mention the vegetative quality.