4/6/2024 - ylkim30 wrote: NR

April 2024 Rhone Valley Tasting (K&L): Sleek, stone fruit, floral, lowish acid. There's minerality and a hit of herb, lending some complexity on the palate, but there just isn't enough acid here.

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4/26/2024 - broadband013 wrote: 89 points

Correct

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4/25/2024 - Schlossed Osterreicher wrote: flawed

Corked

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4/25/2024 - CBHwine Likes this wine: 93 points

Hitting on all cylinders, this wine is a beautiful expression of Grenache forward Chateauneuf-du-pape.

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4/25/2024 - Chris Giammona Likes this wine: 91 points

Notes of red fruit and plum, violets, spice and hints of earthiness. Very juicy but not overpowering, smooth tannins. Good nightly drinking wine - enjoyed it over 2-3 days using Coravin!

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4/25/2024 - Mossrose Likes this wine: 94 points

Wow, if I had to chose between many of my CDPs and this wine, I'd definitely prefer this majority Grenache/Syrah blend. Lots of dark cherries, blackberries, and plums. Some tar and spice. Garrigue, big time. Smooth and silky. Quite savory and discernible fine tannins. Not showing its age at all. The last bottle will remain in my cellar for a while. Very delicious!

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4/24/2024 - Crunge Likes this wine: 96 points

Amazing. I didn't get much on the nose even with swirling but the flavor... Fruit-forward cherries and raspberries with a hint of gravel underneath. No alcohol burn, tannins present but only if you asked to see them. Such perfect balance. PnP at cellar temp and paired with sous vide ribeye. My wife was equally impressed (with the wine, not me.)

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4/21/2024 - prism wrote: 96 points

This is certainly the best C9P Blanc I've ever had, and among the very best of the whites I've consumed over the years. Complex, not overly sweet, minerals, spices: a lot going on here. An outstanding wine, although the price has certainly escalated.

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4/25/2024 - Abharwine Likes this wine: 87 points

Score is purely indicative. Way too young, but only hope I'm around in 5-10 yrs when I'll open next bottle. Sort of wine that a novice drinking it at this stage in its life would say.....naw!!....think they'd be so wrong.

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4/6/2024 - prism wrote: 96 points

Opened for an hour, decanted. Beautiful C9P, and surprisingly Burgundy-like. Softened with time; delicious throughout. An outstanding wine well worth seeking out, though it is pricey.

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4/24/2024 - D E wrote: NR

fruit and tannin still holding up ok, but was a little flat and expected more from a magnum

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4/25/2024 - Foch Likes this wine: 91 points

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4/25/2024 - Baudelaire Does not like this wine: 80 points

I've tried many things to make these bottles drinkable, but it's just not worth it.

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4/24/2024 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 88 points

Nose of dark fruit, spring flowers and allspice, same on the palate, medium body, tasty, touch simple, opened the second and third nights, score went from 86 to 88 points, fairly fruit forward, good acid, medium finish, nice aftertaste, enjoy the next 3 years, $10 makes for great QPR here.

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4/25/2024 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 94 points

This is an unexpected Wow! Superb structure, delicious, and of course, a big full bodied mouthful of wonderful fruits of the forest, along with cedar, cake spices and a little saddle leather. There is plenty of acidity and tannin here to balance the gorgeous fruit. Long finish, with touches of complexity. Just starting to enter the drinking window. Drink now and for the next 20 years.

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4/23/2024 - melvinyeowq wrote: 93 points

Two weeks in France; 4/12/2024-4/24/2024: Off the list at Le Baratin for 51€. Similar to my previous bottle in Singapore but felt fresher - think that natural wines drunk in France have more energy, which made this fun and serious at the same time.

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4/25/2024 - PowerPete wrote: 91 points

After a few hours of decanting. Smooth and lovely

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4/22/2024 - melvinyeowq wrote: NR

Two weeks in France; 4/12/2024-4/24/2024: The higher alcohol on this made it an easy tell that this was a CDP instead of Burgundy, but had fresher red fruit compared to the Lafon. Still very much alive and kicking, and unrecognisable from the CDP of today. Think all of us preferred this to the Burgundy.

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4/21/2024 - melvinyeowq wrote: 91 points

Two weeks in France; 4/12/2024-4/24/2024: Off the list at Septime La Cave while waiting for Clamati. 100% Carignan, seems like they haven’t made this cuvee for some time. Serious and structured, grippy tannins. This producer makes some of the most serious natural wines

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4/25/2024 - Bobsmonkhouse Likes this wine: 87 points

Good qpr for an entry level Rhone.

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4/25/2024 - vide Likes this wine: 92 points

Dense in colour, ditto palate. Not overly subtle, but we can accommodate non subtlety on our palate when we have a wine that has depth such as this.

It is a peasant wine (and I mean that as a complement). Beaucastel may give you more aromatic complexity, but this wine does the job in its sterling simplicity.

It was probably half the price. I can't remember. The older I get and nearer to death, the less the price of wine matters.

vide = mt

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4/24/2024 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 95 points

This actually is not the Celestins—no reserve was produced in 2013. But not to worry. After only a few minutes, this is already showing very well. Gorgeous leggy ruby, pretty and abundant fruit aromas in the nose (strawberry and raspberry), and a palate that seems much less Grenache-centric than most CdPs. Palate is a little drying (but not dying), and lacks the richness, alcohol and overt ripeness of much CdP. What it lacks in garrigue is easily compensated by very pretty fruit flavors. This wasn’t cheap, but definitely comes across as a very classy and elegant wine. It’s like candy for oenophiles. 5-14-17-9: 95/100.

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4/24/2024 - NoelB Likes this wine: 90 points

These have matured into amazingly good wines. Hard to drink young but now subtle and silky.

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4/23/2024 - rrscellar Likes this wine: 89 points

As others have said, tremendous value. More earth than I would expect and really balanced fruit…more balance than I’d expect at this price.

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