Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, June 8, 2012 - Dinner at Giant Garoupa (Giant Garoupa Restaurant): Pretty decent, well-made wine, but I did not like this quite as much as I did the 2006. Somehow, this came across as rather bigger, more obvious and perhaps less well-balanced. Still though, it was a decently good wine. The nose was quite full-on, with sweet wafts of black cherries and cassis touch by a little soupcon of earth and some stemmy, eucalyptus accents. Thos stemmy notes seemed to be amplified on the palate, opening up from eucalyptus into almost Chinese-herb and spice territory, with roots, cinamon and anise notes sprinkled amidst the wine's huge flavours of blackberries, blue berries and cherry chocolates, moving later into prunes and plums at the finish. It was a noticeably big wine with lots of sweet fruit, yet for all that, it was well-balanced enough so that I would not have guessed that this pushed 16% alcohol. It was that same fresh balance that kept it nicely drinkable as well. This is not a wine of great finesse and, as a Grenache blend, it was about as far away from a classic Chateauneuf-du-Pape as one could get. For all that though, it certainly was not a bad drink - just not quite my style of wine. It should improve with time though - this really should just be shoved aside in one corner and not opened until a good 6-8 years time.

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