Red and dark berry, some black pepper. A touch below medium-bodied, supple, balanced and elegant, mixed berries with white pepper, noble medium tannins of surprising quality, appropriate acidity woven through, reasonable length. Professionally cellared since release, this is very good for its price point and industrial-scale production. (*****)
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Kept as an experiment. Bad 'bottle stink' on opening, some sediment, so must be decanted. Bottle stink 'blew off' in about two hours. Very little sign of ageing in the colour, a dark garnet red. Not totally pleasant on the nose: overripe plums and black fruit. Still tannic (as were a lot of the 2005s), but the body is thinning out and 'separating': tannin over here, alcohol over there and in between a dried out fruitiness which is beginning to lose the smoothness that characterises this wine at its best. So, this CdR doesn't really last 13 years. I'll try the 2006 next and report back.
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6/29/2022 - lightning wrote: 90 Points
Red and dark berry, some black pepper. A touch below medium-bodied, supple, balanced and elegant, mixed berries with white pepper, noble medium tannins of surprising quality, appropriate acidity woven through, reasonable length. Professionally cellared since release, this is very good for its price point and industrial-scale production. (*****)
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12/16/2021 - j105puff@msn.com Likes this wine: 89 Points
Nice wine went well with various foods. at a party
The wine looks inky colored. The legs are medium. There is moderate sediment in the bottle.
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12/21/2020 - soumamae wrote:
Lovely after breathing for a while
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11/23/2018 - derekjohn wrote: 84 Points
Kept as an experiment.
Bad 'bottle stink' on opening, some sediment, so must be decanted. Bottle stink 'blew off' in about two hours.
Very little sign of ageing in the colour, a dark garnet red. Not totally pleasant on the nose: overripe plums and black fruit. Still tannic (as were a lot of the 2005s), but the body is thinning out and 'separating': tannin over here, alcohol over there and in between a dried out fruitiness which is beginning to lose the smoothness that characterises this wine at its best.
So, this CdR doesn't really last 13 years. I'll try the 2006 next and report back.
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4/22/2018 - franm wrote: flawed
cheers - really bummed this was corked, shouda been good one
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