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Monday, January 13, 2014 - Appearance: Between ruby and maroon, at the outer rim more towards brick red. Only very small amounts of sediment.

Nose: initially very closed / muted. Only after half an hour of active, vigorous airing does it finally open up: At first it's red berries. Then comes some syraesque meat & blood, then medicinal notes, "fat" dried green herbs and gradually everything starts to fall into place.

Taste & palate: Still fruity! Clean, almost cool red berries. Then acidity and tannins join. Medium light body, but expanding a little with air.

A refreshing, surprisingly young and structured 9,5 years old Campuget Tradition. Age seems to have slimmed this wine down a bit but it's surprising how lively it is and what a cool and clean fruit flavour it displays. Now this might not be perfectly balanced nor is it very open or rich. On the contrary I'm surprised by how tightly knit, young and cool this wine appears.
I'm not sure this wine wasn't better before but this is very unlike what I'd expect from this wine (or any Costières de Nîmes) at ~10 years. Interesting.

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