Community Tasting Notes 11

• beatles wrote: 89 points

  November 5, 2015 - Tasted vis-à-vis Chave, this comes across as well made, more rustic, bigger fruit and certainly fruit-driven; a nice wine, bistro and then some, bring in the lapin à moutarde etc.

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• pbaek wrote:

  November 5, 2015 - 2004 Rhone Tasting chez Lillelund (Lilleund's home): Syrah driven. Pebbery and spicy. Cool. Good core matter, not lean at all. In a good spot now. Just marginally behind the Chave.

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• JohnQBoxler wrote:

  April 20, 2013 - Tapenade, smokey dry cured bacon, garrigue, iron, red plum. Tannins resolved, acid main structural component now. Beautiful with air. Really like this bottle. Not for anyone looking for fruit-driven at this point.

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• cooberp Likes this wine: 91 points

  February 8, 2013 - Medium-bodied, blueberry-fruited, meaty, cinnamon, tangy, nice sweetness-acid balance. At peak. Tastes like a good California Zinfandel (e.g. Ridge Geyserville), but with a much airier texture. Breaks a long streak of disappointing wines for me!

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• Shanta wrote: 93 points

  January 31, 2012 - No 'spikes' of any particular or obvious aroma, just a melange of subtle dried herb, delicate floral and dusty earth aromas. Elegant, almost delicate palate, with an underlying sweet berry note, dry and with some grip. Wine that has moved on from being fruit juice. Other comments made by the tasters included its resemblance to a recently tried Cote Rotie, a slight green character like fresh crushed plant stems, and also that the Syrah fruit could be identified but was not obvious. Beautiful wine.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Alain Graillot
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Guiraude
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Crozes-Hermitage

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• In Cellars 78 (63%)
• Consumed 45 (37%)

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