This beautiful Rhône style blend is still tasting great !! A baby Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Santa Ynez !! I agree with each of my past tasting notes !! This delicious Rhône blend was consumed at dinner with friends. Perfect cork after over a dozen years. Deep dark ruby color with no oxidation, clarity medium. Aromas of black cherry with a hint of licorice. Flavors of fig, blackberry, and leather with a medium to long finish. A very balanced flavorful 55% Grenache and 45% Syrah blend. This is an age worthy wine with more years of life left, unfortunately I have no bottles of this vintage remaining in my cellar. Great fruit from Purisima Mountain Vineyard and great winemaking effort by Mikael Sigouin and Steve Beckman.
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Delicious !! I agree with my prior tasting note. Consumed one with friends at dinner a month ago and another this week at another dinner. Still have one remaining in my cellar.
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Baby Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Santa Ynez; still tasting great !! This delicious rhone blend was consumed at dinner with friends. Perfect cork after a dozen years. Deep dark ruby color with no oxidation, clarity medium. Aromas of black cherry with a hint of licorice. Flavors of fig, blackberry, and leather with a medium to long finish. A very balanced flavorful 55% Grenache and 45% Syrah blend. This is an age worthy wine with more years of life left, fortunately I still have three bottles of this vintage remaining in my cellar. Great fruit from Purisima Mountain Vineyard and great winemaking effort by Mikael Sigouin and Steve Beckman. Excellent with Charcuterie and Olive Tapenade.
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Love this wine. Still has staying power. Would guess another 5+ years. Lovely, mature nose already. The wine looks Garnet colored. The legs are Slow. It smells like Strawberry, and Black currant (cassis). It tastes like and Black currant (cassis). The body is Medium. The wine has Bright texture. The wine finishes Long.
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8/5/2023 - bdhanna Likes this wine: 93 Points
This beautiful Rhône style blend is still tasting great !! A baby Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Santa Ynez !!
I agree with each of my past tasting notes !!
This delicious Rhône blend was consumed at dinner with friends. Perfect cork after over a dozen years. Deep dark ruby color with no oxidation, clarity medium. Aromas of black cherry with a hint of licorice. Flavors of fig, blackberry, and leather with a medium to long finish. A very balanced flavorful 55% Grenache and 45% Syrah blend. This is an age worthy wine with more years of life left, unfortunately I have no bottles of this vintage remaining in my cellar. Great fruit from Purisima Mountain Vineyard and great winemaking effort by Mikael Sigouin and Steve Beckman.
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9/3/2022 - bdhanna Likes this wine: 93 Points
Delicious !! I agree with my prior tasting note.
Consumed one with friends at dinner a month ago and another this week at another dinner. Still have one remaining in my cellar.
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12/5/2021 - bdhanna Likes this wine: 93 Points
Baby Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Santa Ynez; still tasting great !!
This delicious rhone blend was consumed at dinner with friends. Perfect cork after a dozen years. Deep dark ruby color with no oxidation, clarity medium. Aromas of black cherry with a hint of licorice. Flavors of fig, blackberry, and leather with a medium to long finish. A very balanced flavorful 55% Grenache and 45% Syrah blend. This is an age worthy wine with more years of life left, fortunately I still have three bottles of this vintage remaining in my cellar. Great fruit from Purisima Mountain Vineyard and great winemaking effort by Mikael Sigouin and Steve Beckman. Excellent with Charcuterie and Olive Tapenade.
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11/24/2017 - PinotPaul Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wonderful. Wish I had more.
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5/25/2017 - D3S Likes this wine: 93 Points
Great wine and drinking well now.
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11/24/2016 - carlsport Likes this wine: 93 Points
Absolutely stunning after about 45 minutes. Complex red fruits, pepper and smoke.
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7/3/2014 - ettalovesgoodwine wrote: 93 Points
Perfection! Fruit forward, smooth, great finish.
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6/13/2014 - ettalovesgoodwine wrote: 90 Points
Might be on the late side.
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10/3/2013 - PinotPaul Likes this wine: 93 Points
Love this wine. Still has staying power. Would guess another 5+ years. Lovely, mature nose already.
The wine looks Garnet colored. The legs are Slow. It smells like Strawberry, and Black currant (cassis). It tastes like and Black currant (cassis). The body is Medium. The wine has Bright texture. The wine finishes Long.
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11/9/2012 - Vino Me wrote: 90 Points
Offline with Hawaii Wine-O's; 11/9/2012-11/10/2012 (Haggis Home- Honolulu): At the Hawaii offline. Grenache and syrah blend. Plum and spice notes. Semi sweet finish. Tried this again the next day and it rounded out a bit. 90 points.
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7/30/2012 - ettalovesgoodwine wrote: 93 Points
A little young but fantastic.
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3/23/2012 - Rcorrao wrote: 92 Points
Dark fruit. Still a little early. But fantastic.
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