A Mid-Summer Sunday Supper in Wandsworth (Chez Bruce): Blood, iron, redcurrants and few pipette drops of grapefruit juice. With air a little rosehip too.. Palate very savoury and more-ish. With some air the palate develops some raw freshly sliced butchers' bacon and some rose petals. Lovely acidity and resolved tannins. Fab.
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Sunday Night Free Corkage Night (Chez Bruce): No mistaking this for anything other than cornas. Somewhat cloudy - a nose of blood and iron. Some discussion about citrus fruit - not sure I fully got it, but definitely a hint of grapefruit, real piercing acidity though with redcurrant and rosehip. High toned but not shrill at this stage. A real treat - we decided to drink these reds sequentially rather than side by side and I think that was the right choice.
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The wine had dropped a lot of sediment (much more than the last few bottles I have had) and this is really ready now. Archetypal Northern Rhone Syrah nose in the tertiary phase combining red fruits with meaty/leather aromas. Fairly limpid in the glass and very sweet fruit on the palate. The tannins had softened but velvet now rather than ripe sweet fresh tannins. Excellent length. Not quite up there with the La Las but not too far away.
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A lovely mature bottle of Cornas with weight combined with a refinement more reminiscent of Côte Rôtie. At first the nose showed an element of fine cedar within its fragrant cherry and grilled meat infused fruit but later on the cedar receded. The palate was medium+ bodied, velvety textured with fragrant fruit, minerals, forest floor and fresh acidity seamlessly integrated. Finish still had some ripe tannic suport and was quite long. Excellent.
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Northern Rhone WIMPS (La Trompette, Chiswick): Ripe dark fruit, plenty of vanilla oak, creamy, even a touch of chocolate. Medium/full bodied, dark chocolatey fruit, vanilla, fresh acidity, some drying tannin on the finish. Obvious quality underneath quite a lot of oak which remains prominent 20 years from the vintage. ***
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Captivating nose. Perfumed yet spicy. Gorgeous. Lean palate. Clean, acidic and spiced. Lovely wine. Not going to get better. Drink up but take some time to enjoy. Fantastic.
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Pale garnet-red. Faint aroma, dusty raspberry, spearmint, leather. Lean and delicately acidic. The finish is nice. Drinkable but well past its prime. On the soapbox: Voge's old habits of stripping his wines of concentration (that is, when he chose to filter at all) combine here in a delicate wine, alwaqys a result with his usual gentle extractions at the crusher and during fermentation. Bottle #6 of six.
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A whole lotta roasted pork products and bacon fat just pour out of the bottle with the addition of a complex floral element over time. Flavorwise, there is plenty of fruit in a rustic, integrated, well balanced package. This disappeared.
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Pleasant, nice, and a tad on the ligher style. Perhaps filtered. Should hold for many years, but is nothing special. Recall is seeming to have more heft and length when tasted on release in France.
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I had this a couple times at release but I had not tried it since about 2001... Bright, expressive, reddish fruit. Rather ripe, with some sweet oak. Soft in the mouth, with, again, ripe red fruit. Nice, but I thought it seemed surprisingly modern in style. Seemed very youthful.
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Dinner at 112 Eatery (Chave, Beaucastel, Pegau, Voge, Donjon, and others): Another great wine. The nose on this one showed a pronounced (and I mean pronounced) bacon fat. To that you can add some black fruit and smoke. Beautiful. On the palate this is still fairly structured, showing black fruit, earthiness, and some minerality. Not elegant, but excellent in a rustic style. Makes me thankful we were able to meet Alain Voge on our recent trip. A very nice wine.
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Big and bright dark fruit dominates this wine, almost balancing out the adundant alcohol. The body is nearly full but the wine is still quite food friendly.
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7/2/2023 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 92 Points
A Mid-Summer Sunday Supper in Wandsworth (Chez Bruce): Blood, iron, redcurrants and few pipette drops of grapefruit juice. With air a little rosehip too.. Palate very savoury and more-ish. With some air the palate develops some raw freshly sliced butchers' bacon and some rose petals. Lovely acidity and resolved tannins. Fab.
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7/2/2023 - lozatron Likes this wine:
Sunday Night Free Corkage Night (Chez Bruce): No mistaking this for anything other than cornas. Somewhat cloudy - a nose of blood and iron. Some discussion about citrus fruit - not sure I fully got it, but definitely a hint of grapefruit, real piercing acidity though with redcurrant and rosehip. High toned but not shrill at this stage. A real treat - we decided to drink these reds sequentially rather than side by side and I think that was the right choice.
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8/7/2022 - wxch2002 Likes this wine: 96 Points
The wine had dropped a lot of sediment (much more than the last few bottles I have had) and this is really ready now. Archetypal Northern Rhone Syrah nose in the tertiary phase combining red fruits with meaty/leather aromas. Fairly limpid in the glass and very sweet fruit on the palate. The tannins had softened but velvet now rather than ripe sweet fresh tannins. Excellent length. Not quite up there with the La Las but not too far away.
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12/19/2019 - Wineloon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Quite feral, crunchy tart raspberry fruit
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5/26/2019 - eboracum Likes this wine: 93 Points
A lovely mature bottle of Cornas with weight combined with a refinement more reminiscent of Côte Rôtie. At first the nose showed an element of fine cedar within its fragrant cherry and grilled meat infused fruit but later on the cedar receded. The palate was medium+ bodied, velvety textured with fragrant fruit, minerals, forest floor and fresh acidity seamlessly integrated. Finish still had some ripe tannic suport and was quite long. Excellent.
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9/28/2018 - Paul D wrote:
Northern Rhone WIMPS (La Trompette, Chiswick): Ripe dark fruit, plenty of vanilla oak, creamy, even a touch of chocolate. Medium/full bodied, dark chocolatey fruit, vanilla, fresh acidity, some drying tannin on the finish. Obvious quality underneath quite a lot of oak which remains prominent 20 years from the vintage. ***
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8/19/2017 - WetRock wrote:
Captivating nose. Perfumed yet spicy. Gorgeous. Lean palate. Clean, acidic and spiced. Lovely wine. Not going to get better. Drink up but take some time to enjoy. Fantastic.
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3/5/2016 - beatles wrote:
Dinner with Peter, Susanne, PPJ, Maria-Terese, Thomas - chez moi (Frederiksberg): a bit austere - and still very, very concentrated and young; minerals galore, kirsch, garrigue and a very local presence. Will be even better with the lamb - after some air. (#dinner with Peter&Susanne, PPJ etc.)
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9/5/2013 - Hodby wrote: 78 Points
Pale garnet-red. Faint aroma, dusty raspberry, spearmint, leather. Lean and delicately acidic. The finish is nice. Drinkable but well past its prime. On the soapbox: Voge's old habits of stripping his wines of concentration (that is, when he chose to filter at all) combine here in a delicate wine, alwaqys a result with his usual gentle extractions at the crusher and during fermentation. Bottle #6 of six.
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3/21/2011 - BillB656 Likes this wine:
A whole lotta roasted pork products and bacon fat just pour out of the bottle with the addition of a complex floral element over time. Flavorwise, there is plenty of fruit in a rustic, integrated, well balanced package. This disappeared.
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7/1/2008 - ski695 wrote: 90 Points
Pleasant, nice, and a tad on the ligher style. Perhaps filtered. Should hold for many years, but is nothing special. Recall is seeming to have more heft and length when tasted on release in France.
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7/18/2006 - Ben Andersen wrote:
I had this a couple times at release but I had not tried it since about 2001... Bright, expressive, reddish fruit. Rather ripe, with some sweet oak. Soft in the mouth, with, again, ripe red fruit. Nice, but I thought it seemed surprisingly modern in style. Seemed very youthful.
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7/18/2006 - Dave Dalluge wrote:
Dinner at 112 Eatery (Chave, Beaucastel, Pegau, Voge, Donjon, and others): Another great wine. The nose on this one showed a pronounced (and I mean pronounced) bacon fat. To that you can add some black fruit and smoke. Beautiful. On the palate this is still fairly structured, showing black fruit, earthiness, and some minerality. Not elegant, but excellent in a rustic style. Makes me thankful we were able to meet Alain Voge on our recent trip. A very nice wine.
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6/3/2005 - burningstarIV wrote: 91 Points
Big and bright dark fruit dominates this wine, almost balancing out the adundant alcohol. The body is nearly full but the wine is still quite food friendly.
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