Opened at cellar temp with a glass to accompany a lunch of leftover chicken shish kabob. Good cork, with tartrate crystals on its bottom. A medium+ ruby in the glass, with no bricking. The nose features dark cherry, ripe red plum and forest floor with a minty edge. Very good intensity and concentration, red fruited, with negligible tannins. Capped and consumed later with dinner of spicy pork spareribs, and as this came up to room temperature it became much more red-fruited with a minty edge, along with alcohol definitely making its presence known. Our last bottle, and very enjoyable.
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It may be that I'm not meant to like southern Rhone wines, but I did not care for this particular wine. At 15.5%, it's a hot glass of wine, and well beyond what I typically prefer. The palate was a confusing mess of fruit combined with very chewy tannins, leading to the obviously-high residual sugar content. All I could think was "this is a headache waiting to happen".
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Dark red-purple color. Nice nose with raspberry, charcoal, black pepper. Full bodied, not a delicate wine. Great fruit. Lots of backbone left, should age nicely.
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7/18/2017 - wicozani Likes this wine: 90 Points
Opened at cellar temp with a glass to accompany a lunch of leftover chicken shish kabob. Good cork, with tartrate crystals on its bottom. A medium+ ruby in the glass, with no bricking. The nose features dark cherry, ripe red plum and forest floor with a minty edge. Very good intensity and concentration, red fruited, with negligible tannins. Capped and consumed later with dinner of spicy pork spareribs, and as this came up to room temperature it became much more red-fruited with a minty edge, along with alcohol definitely making its presence known. Our last bottle, and very enjoyable.
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7/31/2015 - Easter Everywhere Likes this wine:
seemed good
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6/6/2015 - DragonChowhound Does not like this wine: 82 Points
It may be that I'm not meant to like southern Rhone wines, but I did not care for this particular wine. At 15.5%, it's a hot glass of wine, and well beyond what I typically prefer. The palate was a confusing mess of fruit combined with very chewy tannins, leading to the obviously-high residual sugar content. All I could think was "this is a headache waiting to happen".
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3/7/2015 - JavaMonkey Likes this wine: 90 Points
Dark red-purple color. Nice nose with raspberry, charcoal, black pepper. Full bodied, not a delicate wine. Great fruit. Lots of backbone left, should age nicely.
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1/1/2015 - Capt Cutlass wrote: 86 Points
Richer than the 2009 and hefty with its 15.5% alcohol. Lots of kirsch and concentrated. Too much so but probably great with wild boar...
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