Community Tasting Notes 33

• coremill wrote: 92 points

  February 23, 2024 - This has rounded fully into form: black fruit tinged by herbs and earth, juicy acid, medium weight but intense, with a lot of acid in the midpalate but incredible length to the fruit on the finish. Happy wine.

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• Keith Levenberg Likes this wine:

  January 8, 2024 - It's been about two years since my last bottle. The fruit in this one is fresher but the texture is softer and rounder. It pops with vibrant red berries with even a little bit of raspberry zing. A little Benjamin Button action here in the fruit department. The crunch has mellowed out though. The green peppery bite that I always love about CRB still has the refreshing green but more of a breezy streak than a sharp bite. But there is no diminution in energy. This is still a wine that you half expect to glow in the dark. Nothing has the life force of CRB.

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• SoundinBetween wrote:

  August 4, 2023 - Dark garnet in the glass with a bit of sediment showing. Deeply pitched nose of damp earth, dry smoke, beetroot, and plums; the palate was in top form with ample acidity and supple tannin, silky but not too refined. Perhaps drying out just a touch but overall hard to find fault here, this would have been even better with food (of any kind). On its plateau of maturity and should hold for a decade easily.

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• decaturwinedude wrote: 94 points

  July 20, 2023 - A Good Wednesday: Riesling and Friends: Knoll, Prum, Schaefer, LdH, CRB Pif, Gahier... (Northen China Eatery): Beautiful wine. Earthy and crunchy with clean red fruit balanced with earth and sous bois for days. So poised. Almost refreshing after a night of Riesling and spicy food. This still shines.

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• JohnMcIlwain Likes this wine:

  April 22, 2022 - Beautiful nose. Vibrant and pure. Still juicy and pretty on palate with a shimmering undercurrent of soil underneath. Acidity and tannins seem to be just resolving. No shame to drink now if you have a few. I’ll probably wait a bit until opening another. CRB seldom disappoints and this is no exception.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type Red
• Producer Clos Roche Blanche
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Cuvée Pif
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Touraine
• Appellation Touraine
• UPC Code 815541001627

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• Pending Delivery 21 (6%)
• In Cellars 177 (53%)
• Consumed 136 (41%)

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