Nice Bordeaux style blend. Picked up a my local Costco, popped and poured... Cherries and spice on the nose, silky texture, smooth, nice fruit but no bomb, present but reserved tannins, boysenberries and dark chocolate on the medium nice finish, great QPR at $26... A good wine to share with friends... Will pick up a few more on my next trek to Costco.
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Opened yesterday, poured without decanting. Slight bricking, orange tinged ring, nose was almost repulsive.. Very earthy, barnyard like... No hint of fruit ... Taste was quite different from smell.. Soft tannins, black cherries, tobacco, complex. Decanted today... More fruit coming out in the nose but still earthy... herbal, you can almost taste the soil..lots of layers. Definitely old style.. Not one the fruity jam-bombs produced for mass consumption.
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2008 Dry Creek Vineyard The Mariner
3/21/2013 - JamieFXBG wrote: 90 Points
Nice Bordeaux style blend. Picked up a my local Costco, popped and poured... Cherries and spice on the nose, silky texture, smooth, nice fruit but no bomb, present but reserved tannins, boysenberries and dark chocolate on the medium nice finish, great QPR at $26... A good wine to share with friends... Will pick up a few more on my next trek to Costco.
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2001 Domaine Chante Cigale Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles Vignes
10/22/2012 - JamieFXBG wrote: 89 Points
Opened yesterday, poured without decanting. Slight bricking, orange tinged ring, nose was almost repulsive.. Very earthy, barnyard like... No hint of fruit ... Taste was quite different from smell.. Soft tannins, black cherries, tobacco, complex. Decanted today... More fruit coming out in the nose but still earthy... herbal, you can almost taste the soil..lots of layers. Definitely old style.. Not one the fruity jam-bombs produced for mass consumption.
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