2010 Department 66 D66
Community Tasting Note
MBusk Likes this wine:
92 Points
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - Almost port-like, with its tannins resolved, this wine is in a great drinking window now.
This pours inky purple, totally translucent, without any sign of aging in the color. It's thick with fruit dried and preserved: blackberry jam, date, dried fig, with loads of fudgy dessert notes. The acidity is still present, which keeps this from being merely a cartoon, but this is a very American (Dave Phinney) take on southern France. Let me put it this way: we drank some with dark chocolate after dinner, and the dark chocolate was too dark/intense/bitter for the wine.
Nonetheless, this was completely delicious, and a total crowd-pleaser.
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