Community Tasting Notes 7

• mflesh wrote: 90 points

  June 30, 2019 - Not a fan. A little bit of bricking here. Weird nail polish and tart raspberry and prune dominates this wine. Medium bodied. A little meaty. Some funk and forest floor here as well. Not in the best shape. Probably should have tasted this 5 years ago.

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• Jon and Bek Likes this wine: 92 points

  May 4, 2017 - Geoff Kelly's Guigal Retrospective (Regional Wines & Spirits, Wellington, New Zealand): Red-garnet colour. Prunes on the nose, dark caramelised dates and a savoury complexity; a great vintage, and superb structure after 19 years, smooth tannins, notes of cooked tomatoes, dried fruits. Long finish.

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• Per-Harald Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 23, 2016 - Excellent wine for pork and flavorful homemade puree of mashed roots, power and elegance and no sign of brown colour or age, long fresh and nuanced taste, lovely to drink now but will probably hold 5-10 years, at least.

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• AudunG wrote: 83 points

  March 14, 2013 - Brown to red. Dominated by volatile acids on the nose. Meaty and quite fat in the mouth. Low in acidity, but good structure due to plenty of tannins left. Definitely not more to gain here.

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• jswine15 wrote: 85 points

  December 6, 2011 - never my favorite wine, pretty much past its prime...still lots of tannins, but little in the way of fruit. a little brown around the edges...stored properly

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer E. Guigal
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Gigondas

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• In Cellars 64 (43%)
• Consumed 86 (57%)

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