Community Tasting Note

johnwine wrote:

Thursday, January 12, 2006 - I had a bottle of the Guigal Chateauneuf last evening and so there is a comparison between the two wines that I can draw. The nose of both wines is filled with cherries. The Guigal is more tightly constructed with intense red cherry scents. This wine has cherries and plums with some earthiness on the nose. The taste is likewise compared with the Guigal following through with lush red cherries and kirsch with intense, concentrated flavor. The Font de Michelle has a mixture of cherries, boysenberries, mushrooms and earthiness on the taste. The taste is rougher and less tightly constructed than the Guigal. For my palate the Guigal is the superior wine.

The wine sat in a corked bottle overnight and I tasted it the next day. The nose is fairly open and shows ripe cherries and bosenberries in a more integrated structure than when first tasted. There is also a hint of anise and vanilla present. The taste is more berrylike than cherrylike. The mushroominess and earthiness is not present. The flavors have a medium level of concentration. There is still a fair bit of soft tannins present that dry the upper palate. Well, what a difference a day makes. I would still prefer the Guigal which has more breed and elegance than this wine.

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