1999 Famille Perrin / Perrin & Fils Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Sinards

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 87 points

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  3/31/2018 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Light to medium mahogany.
  Evolved notes with muscovado sugar, molasses, dried undergrowth with a medicinal almost botrytic quality with crushed almonds. Some red and black fruits, mostly ripe cherry with turned earth, like cool clay sods.
  The palate also has a cold, clammy entry but then opens to a sweeter note with molasses, muscovado sugar and forest floor and a pinch of savoury notes.
  A good depth of fruit balanced by lively acidity and finished with a firm, sinewy yet delicate tannin. The wine has a coating of rooibos tea and lavender honey. Showing well, but with noted development, it paired nicely with some hard cheese.

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  1/8/2014 - Paul S wrote: 87 Points

  Drinkable, but not great. It was really funk, with oodles of barnyardy earth, meat and leather over more subtle tones of cranberries and cherries with a bit of spice on the nose. The palate was decent enough, with okay acidity and fine tannins supporting more cherry and cranberry tones on the attack. However, the finish was a little bit flattish, with a bretty whiff of earth, leather and spice ringing a little hollow. Simple, decently constructed, would be an okay food wine, but rather too bretty and rustic for my tastes. On the evidence of this bottle, quite time to drink up as well.

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  12/9/2013 - schwank wrote:

  Cork was in great shape, and on opening the wine had deep garnet color and a bit of stewed tomato on the palate... I thought it might be over the hill. But over 3 hours this opened up into a nice wine with a medium body, smooth leather and raspberry blackberry flavors, along with a slightly brushy garrigue character. Finish is medium long with still quite a bit of tannins. I think this has the stuffing to go a couple more years in the cellar but it is in a nice place now. Silly value for $10 recently.

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  6/17/2009 - davergny wrote: 80 Points

  Rustic and tannic.Was OK with food but didn't really care for it.

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