2009 E. Guigal Gigondas

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  3/12/2024 - kenlotterman Likes this wine:

  Delicious. I think it's right on the crest

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  8/10/2023 - Harley1199 Likes this wine:

  Family Holidays; 7/28/2023-9/10/2023 (Alicante - España): Third of six. Popped and poured. Cork perfectly on fit. Beautiful dark ruby colour. Smells like flesh, sweet spices, red berries, chalk or old tonnel.
  On the palate what we've is a light to medium bodied wine, good acidity, little structure, decent length and a bitter, dry finish. Tamed tannins. Better if chilled because high alcohol (14.5 ABV). Usual high level of sediments. Almost a fourteen years on and still a good example I thought. Maybe the best until now, I guess.
  
  Tercera de seis. Descorchada y vertido. Corcho perfectamente en forma. Hermoso color de un rubí oscuro. Huele a carne, especias dulces, bayas rojas, tiza o a tonel viejo.
  En boca lo que tenemos es un vino de cuerpo ligero a medio, buena acidez, estructura pequeña, longitud decente y un final amargo y seco. Taninos domesticados. Mejor fresquito por el alto nivel de alcohol (14.5%). El habitual alto nivel de sedimentos. Casi catorce años después y todavía un buen ejemplo pensé. Quizás el mejor hasta ahora supongo.

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  4/9/2021 - Harley1199 Likes this wine:

  Beautiful yet dull garnet colour with a watery rim. Aromas of black olives, bleeding flesh, blue flowers, steel and mahogany. Good complexity for a bottle at this range. It begins to be deliciously rusty in the mouth. Soft texture for a medium-bodied wine, balanced by acidity that is giving length and a great tasty sense. It shows the hand of the producer is pretty evident. Once again port-like sediments. I got four more bottles left.
  
  Bello aunque apagado color granate con ribetes acuosos. Aromas a olivas negras, carne sangrante, flores azules, acero y caoba. Buena complejidad para una botella en este rango.
  Comienza a estar deliciosamente oxidada en boca. Suave textura para un vino de cuerpo medio, equilibrada por la acidez y otorgando longitud y un gran sentido sápido. Se nota la mano del productor. Una vez más, gordos sedimentos tipo oporto. Me quedan cuatro botellas más.

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  2/20/2021 - cono_sur Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Lovely, elegant, medium-high to highly aromatic nose offers maturing dried dark berry, sweet cinnamon spice, floral, and wood aromas. It is medium-full to full-bodied on the palate with very good concentration and lovely savoury, sweet spice, dried dark berry, and wet earth flavours with a touch of olive on the mid-palate. It has balanced acidity, while the fine tannins have integrated very nicely, with a slight chalky texture. Well-balanced overall with earthy, savoury, and dried berry notes lingering on the long finish.
  
  Full report: http://vintagewinepicks.blogspot.com/2021/02/e-guigal-gigondas-2009-rhone-wine-review.html

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  10/20/2019 - ccarter5181 wrote: 90 Points

  Drinking very well now on short decant. Elegant wine that is very well balanced, showing some maturity in a good way. Excellent overall.

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