Community Tasting Notes 18

• Dave64 Likes this wine: 89 points

  January 6, 2019 - Drank with rare roast beef
  Ripe juicy fruit
  Subtle oak
  Slightly tannic
  A pleasant wine

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 89 points

  December 15, 2017 - A business dinner (Restaurant Razmataz, Amsterdam, NL): Well-developed at nine years of age, sturdy, spicy, earthy, a solid wine with lovely typicity, quite tannic for age and weight, good length. Drink soonish, before it dries out.

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• bourgogre Does not like this wine:

  March 23, 2017 - Couleur violacée foncée. Presque noire.
  Le nez annonce un beau fruit...Mais...
  Je suis désolé de le dire, c'est raté.
  Je m'attendais à un fruit proéminent, des tannins encore assez solides (c'est ce qu'on trouvait dans un Fronsac il y a 20 ans...)
  
  Non .
  Le fruit est là. Court et sucré. Fugace. Il s'efface tout de suite. Le milieu de bouche est vide et la finale est affreusement rugueuse et alcoolisé.
  Tellement que, une heure après l'ouverture, il brûle encore la langue.
  Il y a au moins 1% , peut-être 1 1/2 % de trop d'alcool dans ce vin (14%)
  
  Raté !
  
  (*) (*1/2?)

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• rwpalmer wrote: 88 points

  February 26, 2017 - Good effort. Ripe dark fruited nose with pleasig leafiness. Round initially but just lacking a little weight through the mid palate. A very good wine at this price point. Softly mature but will certainly hold several years.

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• Piotr K wrote: 86 points

  January 7, 2017 - Not very impressive. Dark red color, nose of forest fruit, but palate feels to mellow, without anything interesting.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Château de la Rivière
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation Fronsac
• UPC Codes 3045710038858, 3523150120086, 714153098882

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• Pending Delivery 1 (1%)
• In Cellars 69 (39%)
• Consumed 106 (60%)

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