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Rhone dinner with Paul Jaouen
Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix, AZ
Tasted Friday, May 18, 2007 by mattiasjansson with 835 views
Flight 1 - Champagne (1 Note)
Flight 2 - The Whites (4 Notes)
2005 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc La Crau 92 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Soft, light-bodied and fresh. Great balance and nice, long finish.
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2004 Le Clos du Caillou Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc 89 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Medium-bodied. Nicely balanced, but a bit flat/hollow on the mid-palate. Also, a touch hot? (Nobody else mentioned this so I may be the only one who got that.)
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1999 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc 93 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Beautiful nose. Some oxidization has set in but not in a negative way - I believe this has reached its peak. I kept this in the glass for over an hour and it showed beautifully the whole time. Wonderful full-flavored wine with a long complex finish.
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2001 E. Guigal Ermitage Blanc Ex-Voto 92 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage
Oak still not fully integrated. Medium-bodied and full-flavored fruit. Hazelnuts on the beautiful finish.
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Flight 3 - CNDP - 1 (3 Notes)
1995 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau 92 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Some barnyard on the nose. Earthy and complex. Surprisingly young. Beautiful wine.
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2004 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau 88 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Not showing as well as the bottle I had a couple of months ago. Very tannic. Monolithic now - needs time. Last time I saw tremendous upside - this time it had shut down too hard to tell.
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1999 E. Guigal Châteauneuf-du-Pape 80 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Very disappointing. Barnyard, rough tannins and bitterness. Very little fruit. I would not have rated this had I not had another disappointing bottle recently.
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Flight 4 - CNDP - 2 (3 Notes)
1990 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée Flawed
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Off bottle? Would have rated 83 points had I not learned that the provenance was questionable. Not terrible - just a shadow of normal Pegau. Medium brick red. Tannic.
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1998 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée Flawed
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
CORKED
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2000 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée 89 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
(My bottle.) Big and oaky. Earthy. Needs time - hard to tell whether it will come around.
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Flight 5 - One straggler CDNP and two Hermitages (3 Notes)
1995 Domaine Charvin Châteauneuf-du-Pape 92 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Very nice nose. Controversial wine - several people in group did not care for it, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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2000 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage 92 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage
Young, tannic. Beautiful dark fruit. Needs time - may develop into something truly great - not showing enough at this point to tell.
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1983 Marc Sorrel Hermitage 91 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage
Cola and mushrooms on nice/interesting nose. Medium-bodied. Tannins fully integrated. Fruit still hanging in there but I think we caught it at the end of its life.
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Flight 6 - More Northern Rhones (4 Notes)
2000 Les Vins de Vienne Sotanum 86 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Vin de Pays des Collines Rhodaniennes
I liked this much better last time. Very floral and perfumey. A bit hot.
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1997 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Brune et Blonde 90 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie
(My bottle.) Peppery nose. Nice fruit with a long finish.
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1998 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Château d'Ampuis 85 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie
Disappointing. Tight and a bit bitter. Ok fruit, but bland mid-palate and short finish.
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1995 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Mouline 94 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie
Medium-red. Wonderful nose. Still some tannins to shed - will likely continue to improve. Long, long finish.
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Flight 7 - Dessert (2 Notes)
2001 Château Suduiraut
France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes
Nose has hints of greatness but it was very muted. Palate flat. Differing opinions on whether the bottle was off. Suspect enough that I will not rate it. (Would have been ~85.)
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2003 Château Suduiraut 92 Points
France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes
Much better than the (flawed?) 2001 we had opened earlier. Typical Sauternes - still very young.
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NV Jean Milan Champagne Grand Cru Special 89 Points
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
Pale and cloudy. Initially dominated by acidity. Opened up with ripe pears.
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