Young, vibrant, fresh, fruit-loaden, but obviously high on alcohol and a touch too sweet for my taste. Ready for drinking, but will no doubt further improve.
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Color rojo cereza, ribete rojizo-granatoso, capa media-alta y gruesa lágrima lenta y suavemente tintada. Nariz de buena intensidad con aromas intensos de fruta roja bien madura (grosellas y frambuesas maduras), finos tostados de la barrica bien integrados y bañados por suaves notas licorosas refrescantes, finos especiados (pimienta roja y algo de pimentón dulce), frescos balsámicos (mentolados y algo de regaliz), frescas hierbas del monte (tomillo) y agradable con ligeros recuerdos a terruño húmedo y monte bajo. Notable entrada en boca con una marcada astringencia, intenso recorrido con suave nervio, fruta roja bien madura y sabrosa (predominio de las frambuesas), buena acidez, bien concentrado pero ligero a la vez en todo el paladar, frescos balsámicos, los tostados se muestran domados y sus taninos bastante tranquilos, suave volumen, fina textura y estructura que se agradece, fácil de beber y muy buena persistencia. Final largo, postgusto de fruta madura y retronasal ahumado. Un vino para disfrutar ahora o bien más adelante.
More information: http://www.elvi.net/2013/12/13/tardieu-laurent-cotes-du-rhone-guy-louis-2010/
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My first impression of this wine is that it is well-made. The oak is perfect. It smells sumptuous and strong, because it needs to be strong in this wine. The wine tastes of fruit candy, toasted wood, smoked meat, and sweet spices. It carries on for a very long time, like you're sucking on a fruit candy. The wine is still a little too tannic at this point.
I don't have an affinity for grenache generally or Southern Rhone wines specifically. They are too fruit-forward and candy-sweet for my tastes.
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Deep ruby color, clear. Nose of cherry liqueur, liquid pepper, slight alcoholic heat, a function of the 2010 vintage. Fresh, medium full palate with pepper, fresh leather, dry cherry, tannin. Powerful.
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A nice cotes du rhone, but one that didn't offer the quality suggestive of its higher price tag ($33/bottle) when compared to typical CDRs. Having recently had two offerings from Saint Cosme, the 2011 CDR ($13.99/bottle) and the 2011 Les Deux Albions ($23.99/bottle), I would say this falls somewhere between the two in quality and dead last as far as QPR. It showed all the typical pepper-spiced fruit that CDR is known for and was a fine bottle of wine, but if your spending on a CDR...there are better outlets for your cash.
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1/27/2018 - fitchbuck Likes this wine: 93 Points
What a steal for $10, runner-up for WOTN in a 5 bottle potluck.
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6/1/2015 - svdheijden wrote: 89 Points
Young, vibrant, fresh, fruit-loaden, but obviously high on alcohol and a touch too sweet for my taste. Ready for drinking, but will no doubt further improve.
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1/26/2015 - _Xenon Likes this wine: 91 Points
Super nice Cote du Rhone. Can easily compete with basic CndP. Pretty young, should have enough time to breathe. Unfortunately not available any more.
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7/11/2014 - Villon wrote: 91 Points
Délicieux, frais et équilibré malgré ses 15% d'alcool.
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5/26/2014 - elvinet Likes this wine: 89 Points
Color rojo cereza, ribete rojizo-granatoso, capa media-alta y gruesa lágrima lenta y suavemente tintada. Nariz de buena intensidad con aromas intensos de fruta roja bien madura (grosellas y frambuesas maduras), finos tostados de la barrica bien integrados y bañados por suaves notas licorosas refrescantes, finos especiados (pimienta roja y algo de pimentón dulce), frescos balsámicos (mentolados y algo de regaliz), frescas hierbas del monte (tomillo) y agradable con ligeros recuerdos a terruño húmedo y monte bajo. Notable entrada en boca con una marcada astringencia, intenso recorrido con suave nervio, fruta roja bien madura y sabrosa (predominio de las frambuesas), buena acidez, bien concentrado pero ligero a la vez en todo el paladar, frescos balsámicos, los tostados se muestran domados y sus taninos bastante tranquilos, suave volumen, fina textura y estructura que se agradece, fácil de beber y muy buena persistencia. Final largo, postgusto de fruta madura y retronasal ahumado.
Un vino para disfrutar ahora o bien más adelante.
More information: http://www.elvi.net/2013/12/13/tardieu-laurent-cotes-du-rhone-guy-louis-2010/
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1/19/2014 - rmalloy wrote: 89 Points
My first impression of this wine is that it is well-made. The oak is perfect. It smells sumptuous and strong, because it needs to be strong in this wine. The wine tastes of fruit candy, toasted wood, smoked meat, and sweet spices. It carries on for a very long time, like you're sucking on a fruit candy. The wine is still a little too tannic at this point.
I don't have an affinity for grenache generally or Southern Rhone wines specifically. They are too fruit-forward and candy-sweet for my tastes.
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12/31/2013 - therhonestore wrote: 90 Points
Deep ruby color, clear. Nose of cherry liqueur, liquid pepper, slight alcoholic heat, a function of the 2010 vintage. Fresh, medium full palate with pepper, fresh leather, dry cherry, tannin. Powerful.
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9/9/2013 - VintageSully wrote: 87 Points
A nice cotes du rhone, but one that didn't offer the quality suggestive of its higher price tag ($33/bottle) when compared to typical CDRs. Having recently had two offerings from Saint Cosme, the 2011 CDR ($13.99/bottle) and the 2011 Les Deux Albions ($23.99/bottle), I would say this falls somewhere between the two in quality and dead last as far as QPR. It showed all the typical pepper-spiced fruit that CDR is known for and was a fine bottle of wine, but if your spending on a CDR...there are better outlets for your cash.
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