2008 Château de La Meulière

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  7/17/2012 - silton wrote: 86 Points

  In re: the previous review, a drinker of CA Cab would find that this wine has a large % of Merlot, in addition to being more simple, sweet, and fat than desired and lacking in both acid and tannin structure. This Meuliere is quaffable enough today with pretty good fruit concentration and length but rather unlike the domestic wines I drink so I'm going to call the CA comparison a lazy stereotype. 85-87.

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  9/27/2011 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 84 Points

  Bought this on the 5c sale at BevMo as wine just to chug down while I was visiting friends. Unfortunately I didn't get to chug it down, and brought it back with me to Oregon, where I unfortunately popped to drink on my own. This, again, unfortunately tastes like much of the wines from California that I had been having while there. In fact, this wine has so much oak spice in it, it reminds me of a light Lodi Zinfandel. That really is the dominant aroma here... just tons of spice and oak. It's almost pleasing, but definitely feels new world. The palate expresses light to medium body, with plenty of additional oak spice, slight butter, slight briar, and only the lightest tannins. Decent spice and slightly acidic on finish. Very light overall, aside from the oak. The bummer here is that it feels as if this could be a fairly well put together wine for the price, but the oak program here completely covers up any kind of subtlety that may have arisen. The acid is great, but there is virtually no fruit, all covered by the oak. If this was fruit and acid instead of oak and acid, I'd really dig it. I greatly appreciate the low alcohol (12.5%) and high acid, but that oak is a serious problem. If you're used to drinking California Cabernet, it probably won't be enough fruit nor oak... but if you're used to drinking Bordeaux, it's not traditional nor balanced.

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