Community Tasting Note
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kuumies wrote:
April 19, 2014 - Very dark and quite dense in the glass. Just lovely and very traditional on the nose: blackberry, damp earth, meat, smoke and iron with hints of brett and vegetal aromas. Really dark toned, thick and brooding nose, and a really good one at that. On the palate fairly full bodied and fleshy with quite considerable yet fine-grained tannins. Quite a structure, but with easily enough ripe yet savoury dark fruit to match. Unfortunately I still have a very fresh recollection of drinking Allemand Cornas Chaillot in Paris last week and I keep on comparing this wine to that one, which really is not fair at all. That beind said the fruit, while typical and pure, seems a bit hollow (especially towards the finish) at this point, greatly reducing the appeal of this wine when drunk on its own. That and the currently somewhat aggressive tannin structure could improve with more bottle age though. Anyway this is really good now with beef tenderloin and on the other hand years away from its peak and thus I would not mind having several bottles more to age.
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