Community Tasting Note

BVal wrote:

Monday, December 10, 2012 - Tasted blind. Color: medium/light ruby -> light ruby rim with slight bricking. Bouquet showed a green mint I wasn't fond of but developed other more favourable elements: smoke, bacon, tobacco, leather, barnyard. Palate was much lighter than expected; texture and depth more akin to a large-scaled mature Burgundy than Hermitage! Still aspects of green/sappy mintiness I feel don't belong but followed by licorice, olive tapenade, smoky cherries. All in all, a very good, mature (drink now or soon) wine that just misses out due to those strange green/minty elements. Second place in a flight of three including '88 Guigal Cote Rotie and '90 Clape Cornas.

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