1999 Domaine du Grand Tinel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Alexis Establet

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90 points

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  5/31/2014 - StefanAkiko wrote: flawed

  Must be what Zombies smell like...
  
  This was the most foul and NASTY smell I've ever had from a wine. During decanting, the sediment came through after roughly half the btl was decanted. The foul fumes made me sick to my stomach, I poured a glass and set the half undecanted btl aside...
  
  Wife almost cursed... I poured it down the drain, hoping the demons would also leave our home...
  
  This is probably a btl full of interesting "life" if you are a microbiologist. For us it was vile. A waste of money. A horrid near Death experience.

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  12/1/2013 - StefanAkiko wrote: 90 Points

  The kind of wine that when it ages it becomes old, not developed. But I love it for what it is (=traddo) and would happily enjoy again.
  
  Browning red.
  Mature, earthy, sulphuric -> going to old nose.
  In the mouth it reminds me much more of a mature, little simple, earthy Bordeaux than of a CndP. M bodied with M acids and M+ tannin. Fruit is still there, but going away. There is length and balance. Drinking pleasure at a very affordable price for a mature wine. Some red fruit, non-garrigue herbs and also little licorice.
  Less than 5 years of high quality life left.
  Home dinner with things from Sogo and organic olive oil from Clos Mogador.

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