2018 Château Grand Village
Community Tasting Note
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - When i first tasted this, I thought, jesus, this tastes like a Napa Petite Sirah, and lo, it lists a 15.5% ABV on the bottle. Fifteen-point-f'ing-five percent alcohol.
It is certainly the least conventional and least representative bottle of bordeaux I have ever had - more like a Barossa bdx blend than anything resembling the old world. Tons and tons of purple fruit with some raisin character; sinus-clearing alcoholic heat; good tannic structure, good acidity, a hint of mint. Absolutely nothing green or cedary here, as this is FULL THROTTLE PEDAL TO THE FLOOR HOLD ON TIGHT BOYZ fruit and booze.
It is more or less the precise opposite of what I like in my Bordeaux - there are plenty of other places in the world that can make blackberry pie wine - but I don't think its objectively bad. There are probably a lot of inexperienced drinkers who would be blown away by this, and I assume that's the market they're going for.
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