13x 1980 Birthday Bash: Tasted blind from a magnum. Sadly, this bottle was past its prime. Hints of dark red and red fruits, herbs but an all-consuming soy sauce, broth layer which destroyed everything which might have been there. Usually these Clos des Papes can age very well but I guess that this bottle wasn’t stored properly or else it would have had more life left.
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"You only turn 40 once tasting" (At home): Double decanted. From magnum. There was just a little bit of fruit left, but disappointingly there was mostly only beef juice left.
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Really the essence of Grenache/CDP, with its lovely herbal-inflected ripe raspberry fruit. Tannins mostly resolved, fully mature, lightish in body but still showing fruit. If more CDP tasted like this, I would drink it more often.
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10/12/2020 - Cailles wrote: flawed
13x 1980 Birthday Bash: Tasted blind from a magnum. Sadly, this bottle was past its prime. Hints of dark red and red fruits, herbs but an all-consuming soy sauce, broth layer which destroyed everything which might have been there. Usually these Clos des Papes can age very well but I guess that this bottle wasn’t stored properly or else it would have had more life left.
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9/19/2020 - sirpat00 wrote: 80 Points
"You only turn 40 once tasting" (At home): Double decanted. From magnum. There was just a little bit of fruit left, but disappointingly there was mostly only beef juice left.
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2/10/2018 - coremill wrote:
Really the essence of Grenache/CDP, with its lovely herbal-inflected ripe raspberry fruit. Tannins mostly resolved, fully mature, lightish in body but still showing fruit. If more CDP tasted like this, I would drink it more often.
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