Community Tasting Note

austinwinesalon wrote:

Sunday, August 8, 2010 - Grand Blanc at Aquarelle French Restaurant (Austin, Texas): This bottle did not show well, and we have had much bottle variation with this wine. At a salon Rhone rouge tasting six months ago, this wine drunk during an intermission was stellar—but for this salon it was clumsy and acidic, seemed in decline; another bottle of 2000 previously opened was oxidized. But this wine can be quite good. Our tasters here found it bland, more interesting on the nose than the palate, where it was more mineral than fruit, with campfire, smoke, cedar, wax candle notes. Not by any means a bad drink, but lacked the marsanne and rousanne fruit character which other bottles have had.

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