2004 Clos del Rey Côtes du Roussillon Villages
Community Tasting Note
NineteenEightyTwo Does not like this wine:
70 Points
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - Opaque rosewood color. This is a big, oaky, vanilla-saturated fruit bomb on both the nose and the palate. I'm usually not too prissy about a wine being a bit "internationally" styled, but this is preposterous; the wine is totally unbalanced and aggressive. The palate tastes like jammy acetone, as though someone dumped a bottle of nail polish remover into a bucket of grape juice. My remaining two bottles will be "gifted" to people I loathe. Drink never.
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Comment posted by cliffkol:
2/21/2015 6:10:00 PM - Hi there,
If you found this bottle to be corked, maybe it should be notated as "flawed"? Instead of "drunk" with a 70 rating? Just saying .....
Comment posted by NineteenEightyTwo:
2/22/2015 11:05:00 AM - Please re-read my tasting note attentively. At no point did I indicate that the wine was corked. On the contrary, this was full-throttle. However the vigorously alcoholic and extracted style combined with injudicious use of oak made this wine unpleasant to drink. I didn't rate it "flawed" because it wasn't flawed; I rated it 70 because it sucked.