Community Tasting Notes 10

• Lion's Share Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 24, 2024 - A dense, muscular CDP with flavors of raspberries, cherries and plum pate. There’s a rosy accent, and black tea and mushroom notes. The mouthfeel is fairly creamy with a suitable amount of oak-imparted silkiness. There’s a bit of heat on the nose but the listed 16% alcohol content does not seem to intrude over the fruit and other flavors.

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• Brent25 wrote: 89 points

  January 19, 2024 - Clear medium ruby; clean medium plus nose of chocolate-covered maraschino cherries and soil; dry; medium plus acidity; medium plus tannins; high alcohol; medium plus body; medium plus flavour intensity; palate is tarter with addition of black licorice; long finish; very hot and unbalanced with a pop-and-pour - give it another 5 years in the cellar or an hour decant

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• MicklethePickle Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 16, 2023 - PnP. Dark garnet. For all intents and purposes, opaque. Quintessential CdP, filled with garrigue and spice and herbs. Total fruit bomb with high alcohol that is apparent only in the mouthfeel. Almost like candy. Oozes grenache. Real purity here. 5-13-17-8: 93/100.

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• sjw_11 Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 19, 2022 - Slightly more developed and bit more raisined on the fruit profile than my last bottle in 2020, but frankly I am not that confident of the storage conditions in this flat so that might contribute given the recent two hot summers. Still a very nice wine but on this showing I would drink sooner, maybe over five to ten years. I am starting to worry the high alcohol might poke out with extended ageing.

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• JustOneMoreGlass Likes this wine: 95 points

  August 13, 2022 - A chameleon. Decanted for 3 hours. Started as heavy grenache but you could tell the syrah was there. Then it went full grenache around hour 1.5 of drinking. Then around hour 3 it went full syrah. Each stage was great however. Super light tannins on finish, but some grip early-mid palate. Will obv come together with more time in bottle - but really tasty now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine de la Charbonnière
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation Cuvée Spéciale
• Vineyard Les Hautes Brusquières
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• UPC Codes 3760112172039, 3760112179090

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• In Cellars 263 (77%)
• Consumed 79 (23%)

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