At a Rhone wine theme dinner with friends, served blind, decanted for few hours & it really needed it, most guessed a Northern Rhone & a Lala, very dark, full bodied, meaty, complex but still young
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Kleur: Diep donkerrood met een dunne rand. Aroma / bouquet: Aangenaam, verleidelijk bouquet, Donker gedroogd fruit, zoete kruiderij, rozenblaadjes, een subtiele rokerigheid. Smaak / Afdronk: Krachtige, klassieke en grootse Syrah. Krachtig èn prachtig in balans. Verfijnde zuurgraad, prachtig gerijpte tannines, geweldig mooie concentratie en vulling.Verfijnd hout. Serieus lange afdronk. Algemeen / potentieel: Grootse klassieke Côte-Rotie! 50 + Kleur: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 14 + Smaak / Afdronk: 19 + Algemeen / potentieel: 9 = 97/100
Colour: Deep dark red with a thin edge. Aroma / bouquet: Pleasant, seductive bouquet, Dark dried fruit, sweet spices, rose petals, a subtle smokiness. Taste / Aftertaste: Powerful, classic and grand Syrah. Powerful and beautifully balanced. Refined acidity, beautifully ripened tannins, wonderful concentration and filling. Refined wood. Seriously long finish. General / potential: Great classic Côte-Rotie! 50 + Colour: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 14 + Taste / Aftertaste: 19 + General / potential: 9 = 97/100
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Nice dark meaty aromas with lovely black spices. This follows through on the palate with a slightly lighter bodied that expected. Drinking very well with loads of interesting spices throughout. Had with Mr. Pott.
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Like it but didn't love it. Very obvious N Rhone meaty/ pepper notes, black fruit and some oak still evident. Mid weight. Finishes long but overall rather one dimensional for a wine at this price/ reputation.
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blind decanted just for an half hour, beautifully spicy. Dark berries, some tar and licorice, in a young stage but nicely to drink over the next 20 years. 97
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Decanted for 2 hours prior serving. Graphite, mint, perfume, currant, herbs. Palate was weighty and broad, yet elegant. A pleasant introduction to Guigal. Great underlying potential.
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2005 Cote Rotie La La & Co. - 15 years of age: Tasted blind. Holy cow, this is very rich, ripe and tannic almost rustic. There is good aromatics of scorched earth, blackberry and smoke. Also a cool minty element. My score will probably be conservative in the end but dont open this before 2025.
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I’ve had these in the cellar since release, and opened this one, awaiting a kind of religious experience. Instead, the wine was very turbid, completely opaque with sediment, and the bottle had been properly stored and decanted. Don’t understand. Didn’t taste great but I’m not going to rate it b/c I am hoping something that I’ve never encountered in years of far too much drinking is going on with this bottle.
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Northern Rhone Tasting (Restaurant Brunnenstube, Beinstein): Opened 4h before, not decanted. Clear, medium ruby color. Clean, a bit muted nose. Fine red fruit, airy, spiciness, eucalyptus, some charcoal and graphite. Deep, complex and still a baby with a great potential. On the palate dry, beautiful medium+ acidity, wonderful silky tannin. Beautiful red fruit, lots of spices, wonderful integrated oak, very good balance. Very deep and dense. Long and lingering. Can’t see the 100 points at the moment, but it has a very good potential for getting close. 93-94++
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Guigal LaLa Dinner II (Chef's Club NYC): This nose is brooding and all but completely closed, offering glycerin, graphite, and underripe blackberry. This isn’t totally monolithic and there is nice detail and complexity lurking underneath, just intense and inky right now. Cracked black pepper. On the palate this is too dense and rich to handle right now.
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Acker Guigal La La dinner (Chef's Club - 275 Mulberry Street): It's a very young wine (esp for a LaLa), but there's some great promise here and to me really stood out compared to the 2003 (which I think was the more celebrated vintage). At this point it's mostly like a trip through a spice cabinet. Maybe a hint of fir. Some green notes. Barnyard funk. The balance though here at this stage makes me think it will be really something. Lovely.
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Huge, green, oak monster. High octane nose of cracked black pepper, green bell peppers, and asparagus. Hot and alcoholic with glycerine, menthol, black liquorice, and fennel initially. Some black cherry, black currant, vanilla, and bourbon appear on the palate but it is tough to find fruit past the oak here. Clearly going to be an amazing wine, it just needs to be laid down for at least ten more years before reassessing.
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Chris's Birthday at The Bridge Room: Super aromatics - bacon and smoky charcoal, graphite and a real dark perfumed lift. Palate is slightly brooding in style, though it has a silky mouthfeel with some lovely spice to it as well. Needs time obviously but also obviously a very fine wine.
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This will be one tasting note for La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque 2005. The Mouline was blood red with a slightly carmine rim. The Turque dark blood red and the Landonne was extremely dark with still a purple hue. The Mouline had a beautiful perfume with loads of herbs and spices and some graphite. The Turque also a lot of garrigue, esp. clove as well as ripe fruits and some (pleasant) medicine impressions. The Landonne had beside the garrigue and fruits, saddle leather, laurel and an enormous intensity. The Mouline on the palate concentrated with very juicy fruits, leather, bacon, garrigue, some sweetness, vanilla, good acidity, sticky tannin and a great length. The Turque had the same impressions and also ink and black olives. Also a great length. More firm than La Mouline but so beautiful as well with the same impressions on the palate! The Landonne really is a mouth full of wine with the most tannin and good bitterness. Maybe the least sweet, at this moment. The tannin is still the most locked and a little drying in the finish. Overall; three beautiful and superb wines with each their own merits. I will score all three the same: 96, but with one or more plusses for future expectations. The Mouline is the most elegant and juicy at the moment; 96+. The Turque holds the middle between elegance and future, but imho it has the best balance at least at this moment; 96++. La Landonne is the most reticent at the moment with the longest future; 96+++. For all three wines; wait until 2020 or even better 2025.
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Intensive and deep,dark ruby red. Complex nose with balance between ripe fruit and spicies. Blackberries,black cherries,smoke,pepper,cinemmon,tar. On the palate spicy,drying tannins combined with crisp acidity. Fresh and persistant aftertaste,a bit chalky. Blackcurrant,sour cherries,plum,tobacco,pepper. Great balance,structure and aging potential.
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Vertical tasting of Guigal La Turque (Esperanto, Stockholm): Nose with ripe dark berries, slightly sweetish but balanced fruity note, aromatic, mild spice, some balsamico, well integrated oak. Definitely elegant. Initially a bit discrete nose, but amplified in the glass. Full bodied, palate with cherries and dark berries, powerful concentration of fruit, powerful but well integrated and velvety tannins. Long aftertaste with tart fruit and polished tannins. Rather young, although accessible, but will gain from cellaring, 95+.
That the nose initially was rather discrete indicates that it is currently in a bit of “dumb phase”, which is what I had expected of any powerful red 2005 from any of the classical French wine regions, at 7 years of age. Tasting notes from when it was released indicate a more expressive nose at that time. The palate isn’t closed or “dumb” in the same way, so the wine was actually more accessible than I had expected.
I would wait until at least 10 years of age, at the earliest 2015, before drinking, and even then I would allow it several hours of decanting.
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Guigal Masterclass Stockholm, 8 vintages of La Turque: Nose: Deep, complex and expensive. Signs of maturity showing. Mature fruit and some pepper, with wet leaves, earth and smoked meat. Some iron notes too. Palate: Full, round, deep and soft. Mature cherries and red fruit. Lovely fruit with great transparency and mature fruit, impeccable balance. A great vintage that is lovely already. One of tonight’s top 3 wines!
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2005 Guigals with Lawrence, Vivian and Mrs L (Fook Lam Moon, Hong Kong): Dark inky purple, the nose was definitely more restrained than the Mouline (both having gone through a 12 hour decant). Its youthfulness is evident in the pronounced tannin and slightly primary nature of the fruit, but still it was a pleasure to drink. Exquisitely made, beautifully balanced and densely packed with dark fruit, blackberry, leather, spice, pepper and earth, this is a wine that will go the distance. As it matures and opens up in time, I have no doubt it will merit an even higher score on my enjoyment scale. I've not had the privilege to taste many of Guigal's single-vineyard wines so this was a treat -- based on this example, I have no reason to doubt the hype.
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Dinner at home with my wife Marilena and my friends George and Vanghelis. Deep ruby with an opaque core. Scents of dark fruits, kirsh liqueur, sun dried figs, leather and tar. Hints of animal notes. Totally full - bodied on the palate, with still aggressive tannins and layers of black truffles, bacon, quince marmalade, wild cherries, sultanas, cinnamon, black pepper, toffees and wood. Endless aftertaste. Still very - very young. To keep in cellar for 10 - 15 years. Nice pairing with braised veal with eggplant puree.
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Medium body. Showing a lot of restraint. Spicy cinnamon stuff on the nose. Light clove. Some rose petals. The palate is young and needs some serious time or decanting action. Limited notes.
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Powerfull nose with dark berry, cherries and spices. More masculin and raw than Mouline and Landonne today, which makes it less charming to drink. But still theres plenty of fruit, concentration and power, with blackberry, pepper and spices.
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4/23/2024 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine:
At a Rhone wine theme dinner with friends, served blind, decanted for few hours & it really needed it, most guessed a Northern Rhone & a Lala, very dark, full bodied, meaty, complex but still young
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2/23/2024 - WildeMeeuw Likes this wine: 97 Points
Kleur: Diep donkerrood met een dunne rand. Aroma / bouquet: Aangenaam, verleidelijk bouquet, Donker gedroogd fruit, zoete kruiderij, rozenblaadjes, een subtiele rokerigheid. Smaak / Afdronk: Krachtige, klassieke en grootse Syrah. Krachtig èn prachtig in balans. Verfijnde zuurgraad, prachtig gerijpte tannines, geweldig mooie concentratie en vulling.Verfijnd hout. Serieus lange afdronk. Algemeen / potentieel: Grootse klassieke Côte-Rotie! 50 + Kleur: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 14 + Smaak / Afdronk: 19 + Algemeen / potentieel: 9 = 97/100
Colour: Deep dark red with a thin edge. Aroma / bouquet: Pleasant, seductive bouquet, Dark dried fruit, sweet spices, rose petals, a subtle smokiness. Taste / Aftertaste: Powerful, classic and grand Syrah. Powerful and beautifully balanced. Refined acidity, beautifully ripened tannins, wonderful concentration and filling. Refined wood. Seriously long finish. General / potential: Great classic Côte-Rotie! 50 + Colour: 5 + Aroma / bouquet: 14 + Taste / Aftertaste: 19 + General / potential: 9 = 97/100
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11/12/2022 - KenK Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nice dark meaty aromas with lovely black spices. This follows through on the palate with a slightly lighter bodied that expected. Drinking very well with loads of interesting spices throughout. Had with Mr. Pott.
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10/5/2022 - PLLU Likes this wine: 99 Points
Heaven in a bottle! Complex and vivid on the nose. Multilayer, super elegant and long finish. A masterpiece. I love it
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8/23/2022 - Andice wrote: 92 Points
Like it but didn't love it. Very obvious N Rhone meaty/ pepper notes, black fruit and some oak still evident. Mid weight. Finishes long but overall rather one dimensional for a wine at this price/ reputation.
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10/20/2021 - bookert wrote: 91 Points
Oaky, blue fruited, some meaty notes
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6/27/2021 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 97 Points
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decanted just for an half hour, beautifully spicy. Dark berries, some tar and licorice, in a young stage but nicely to drink over the next 20 years. 97
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8/3/2020 - hprphf wrote: 95 Points
Dark red fruit, orange spice, woody nose, graphite, fresh clarity, good length and energy. Need time to intergrate; this may turn out really good. 95+
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8/2/2020 - jchan1 wrote: 92 Points
Decanted for 2 hours prior serving. Graphite, mint, perfume, currant, herbs. Palate was weighty and broad, yet elegant. A pleasant introduction to Guigal. Great underlying potential.
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5/9/2020 - steinersing wrote: 94 Points
quite tannic here and also a little pepper. Great material but least ready of the three LaLa Guigal's now.
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5/9/2020 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points
2005 Cote Rotie La La & Co. - 15 years of age: Tasted blind. Holy cow, this is very rich, ripe and tannic almost rustic. There is good aromatics of scorched earth, blackberry and smoke. Also a cool minty element. My score will probably be conservative in the end but dont open this before 2025.
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4/7/2020 - Niagara wrote:
I’ve had these in the cellar since release, and opened this one, awaiting a kind of religious experience. Instead, the wine was very turbid, completely opaque with sediment, and the bottle had been properly stored and decanted. Don’t understand. Didn’t taste great but I’m not going to rate it b/c I am hoping something that I’ve never encountered in years of far too much drinking is going on with this bottle.
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3/6/2020 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 94 Points
Northern Rhone Tasting (Restaurant Brunnenstube, Beinstein): Opened 4h before, not decanted. Clear, medium ruby color. Clean, a bit muted nose. Fine red fruit, airy, spiciness, eucalyptus, some charcoal and graphite. Deep, complex and still a baby with a great potential.
On the palate dry, beautiful medium+ acidity, wonderful silky tannin. Beautiful red fruit, lots of spices, wonderful integrated oak, very good balance. Very deep and dense. Long and lingering. Can’t see the 100 points at the moment, but it has a very good potential for getting close. 93-94++
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11/7/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Needs time to develop secondary.
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3/20/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 91 Points
Guigal LaLa Dinner II (Chef's Club NYC): This nose is brooding and all but completely closed, offering glycerin, graphite, and underripe blackberry. This isn’t totally monolithic and there is nice detail and complexity lurking underneath, just intense and inky right now. Cracked black pepper. On the palate this is too dense and rich to handle right now.
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3/20/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Acker Guigal La La dinner (Chef's Club - 275 Mulberry Street): It's a very young wine (esp for a LaLa), but there's some great promise here and to me really stood out compared to the 2003 (which I think was the more celebrated vintage). At this point it's mostly like a trip through a spice cabinet. Maybe a hint of fir. Some green notes. Barnyard funk. The balance though here at this stage makes me think it will be really something. Lovely.
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4/8/2017 - AndersLov Likes this wine: 99 Points
Couldn't keep my hands off this. Maybe I should have saved it some more years but will it get better than this?!!
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3/10/2017 - A2331 Likes this wine: 100 Points
La Turqe Tasting. Started to go into a more mature phase. Really good. VERY long and wounderful. Can be kept for many years.
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11/3/2015 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 91 Points
Huge, green, oak monster. High octane nose of cracked black pepper, green bell peppers, and asparagus. Hot and alcoholic with glycerine, menthol, black liquorice, and fennel initially. Some black cherry, black currant, vanilla, and bourbon appear on the palate but it is tough to find fruit past the oak here. Clearly going to be an amazing wine, it just needs to be laid down for at least ten more years before reassessing.
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12/5/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 94 Points
Chris's Birthday at The Bridge Room: Super aromatics - bacon and smoky charcoal, graphite and a real dark perfumed lift. Palate is slightly brooding in style, though it has a silky mouthfeel with some lovely spice to it as well. Needs time obviously but also obviously a very fine wine.
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2/23/2013 - Zweder wrote: 96 Points
This will be one tasting note for La Mouline, La Landonne and La Turque 2005. The Mouline was blood red with a slightly carmine rim. The Turque dark blood red and the Landonne was extremely dark with still a purple hue. The Mouline had a beautiful perfume with loads of herbs and spices and some graphite. The Turque also a lot of garrigue, esp. clove as well as ripe fruits and some (pleasant) medicine impressions. The Landonne had beside the garrigue and fruits, saddle leather, laurel and an enormous intensity. The Mouline on the palate concentrated with very juicy fruits, leather, bacon, garrigue, some sweetness, vanilla, good acidity, sticky tannin and a great length. The Turque had the same impressions and also ink and black olives. Also a great length. More firm than La Mouline but so beautiful as well with the same impressions on the palate! The Landonne really is a mouth full of wine with the most tannin and good bitterness. Maybe the least sweet, at this moment. The tannin is still the most locked and a little drying in the finish. Overall; three beautiful and superb wines with each their own merits. I will score all three the same: 96, but with one or more plusses for future expectations. The Mouline is the most elegant and juicy at the moment; 96+. The Turque holds the middle between elegance and future, but imho it has the best balance at least at this moment; 96++. La Landonne is the most reticent at the moment with the longest future; 96+++. For all three wines; wait until 2020 or even better 2025.
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1/16/2013 - MilaBuchelska Likes this wine: 93 Points
Intensive and deep,dark ruby red.
Complex nose with balance between ripe fruit and spicies.
Blackberries,black cherries,smoke,pepper,cinemmon,tar.
On the palate spicy,drying tannins combined with crisp acidity.
Fresh and persistant aftertaste,a bit chalky.
Blackcurrant,sour cherries,plum,tobacco,pepper.
Great balance,structure and aging potential.
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10/9/2012 - Vintomas wrote: 95 Points
Vertical tasting of Guigal La Turque (Esperanto, Stockholm): Nose with ripe dark berries, slightly sweetish but balanced fruity note, aromatic, mild spice, some balsamico, well integrated oak. Definitely elegant. Initially a bit discrete nose, but amplified in the glass. Full bodied, palate with cherries and dark berries, powerful concentration of fruit, powerful but well integrated and velvety tannins. Long aftertaste with tart fruit and polished tannins. Rather young, although accessible, but will gain from cellaring, 95+.
That the nose initially was rather discrete indicates that it is currently in a bit of “dumb phase”, which is what I had expected of any powerful red 2005 from any of the classical French wine regions, at 7 years of age. Tasting notes from when it was released indicate a more expressive nose at that time. The palate isn’t closed or “dumb” in the same way, so the wine was actually more accessible than I had expected.
I would wait until at least 10 years of age, at the earliest 2015, before drinking, and even then I would allow it several hours of decanting.
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10/9/2012 - Ramberg wrote: 99 Points
Guigal Masterclass Stockholm, 8 vintages of La Turque: Nose: Deep, complex and expensive. Signs of maturity showing.
Mature fruit and some pepper, with wet leaves, earth and smoked meat.
Some iron notes too.
Palate: Full, round, deep and soft.
Mature cherries and red fruit.
Lovely fruit with great transparency and mature fruit, impeccable balance.
A great vintage that is lovely already.
One of tonight’s top 3 wines!
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7/7/2012 - ilee wrote: 96 Points
2005 Guigals with Lawrence, Vivian and Mrs L (Fook Lam Moon, Hong Kong): Dark inky purple, the nose was definitely more restrained than the Mouline (both having gone through a 12 hour decant). Its youthfulness is evident in the pronounced tannin and slightly primary nature of the fruit, but still it was a pleasure to drink. Exquisitely made, beautifully balanced and densely packed with dark fruit, blackberry, leather, spice, pepper and earth, this is a wine that will go the distance. As it matures and opens up in time, I have no doubt it will merit an even higher score on my enjoyment scale. I've not had the privilege to taste many of Guigal's single-vineyard wines so this was a treat -- based on this example, I have no reason to doubt the hype.
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11/28/2011 - balassis wrote: 96 Points
Dinner at home with my wife Marilena and my friends George and Vanghelis.
Deep ruby with an opaque core.
Scents of dark fruits, kirsh liqueur, sun dried figs, leather and tar. Hints of animal notes.
Totally full - bodied on the palate, with still aggressive tannins and layers of black truffles, bacon, quince marmalade, wild cherries, sultanas, cinnamon, black pepper, toffees and wood.
Endless aftertaste.
Still very - very young.
To keep in cellar for 10 - 15 years.
Nice pairing with braised veal with eggplant puree.
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4/27/2011 - beezer6 wrote: 93 Points
Medium body. Showing a lot of restraint. Spicy cinnamon stuff on the nose. Light clove. Some rose petals.
The palate is young and needs some serious time or decanting action. Limited notes.
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11/3/2010 - Whitman wrote: 95 Points
Powerfull nose with dark berry, cherries and spices. More masculin and raw than Mouline and Landonne today, which makes it less charming to drink. But still theres plenty of fruit, concentration and power, with blackberry, pepper and spices.
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