High acidity for cdp, juicy and (slightly over)developed fruit with raisin, chocolate and coffee, and a slightly sweet finish. Good depth to fruit and peppery, relatively long taste. Not my favorite cdp but its by any measure a ‘real’ terroir wine with complex minerality and high acidity and soft but still present tannin. Good purity and great acidity. Very good on second day, but the raisin element concerns me in terms of further cellaring.
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Nose is quite nice with something burnt, with raisin, a bit of aniseed, perhaps some cardamon and clove. However, on the first day the grenache was so rich that I put the wine away again. On day two everything has softened remarkably. Now it's very drinkable (although this will never be my style of wine).
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8/13/2022 - timcardk Likes this wine: 86 Points
Past it's peak or flawed
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9/29/2018 - Soreng wrote: 91 Points
High acidity for cdp, juicy and (slightly over)developed fruit with raisin, chocolate and coffee, and a slightly sweet finish. Good depth to fruit and peppery, relatively long taste. Not my favorite cdp but its by any measure a ‘real’ terroir wine with complex minerality and high acidity and soft but still present tannin. Good purity and great acidity.
Very good on second day, but the raisin element concerns me in terms of further cellaring.
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1/26/2014 - strawbo wrote: 85 Points
Nose is quite nice with something burnt, with raisin, a bit of aniseed, perhaps some cardamon and clove. However, on the first day the grenache was so rich that I put the wine away again. On day two everything has softened remarkably. Now it's very drinkable (although this will never be my style of wine).
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11/9/2012 - bering8 wrote: 81 Points
a big Chateuneuf but a good average glas
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