Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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    12/17/2018 - wrote: 91 Points

    On the nose this is shockingly fresh, violet florals and purple and blue fruits. Cool bouldery minerality. Very pretty and elegant. Palate is thick and heavy but is structurally resolved and easy sipping. Mild rusticity, pleasantly, but stylistically clean and cool. Good winter wine, I think this is heavy Mourvèdre, and it’s thick. Tobacco, dark chocolate. Including my rest of these in a sale of misfits from the cellar, so a bit of a farewell note. 91-92+, especially if you like CDP.

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    2/16/2014 - wrote: flawed

    To no fault of the producer, only the individual who donated this wine to a charity auction likely knowing so, the wine was flawed. Most likely improper storage was the culprit. Nevertheless, I made lemonade out of (expensive) lemons and have saved the wine for culinary purposes. So far it has been used to make a fantastic marsala, as well as in a bolognese. I have it in mason jars to not a waste a drop and continue to make delicious entrées with what I am sure was once a delicious wine. With two more full bottles, that's a lot of delicious meals.

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    4/23/2011 - wrote: 93 Points

    Medium red color just tending to brown. Highly nuanced and complex bouquet. Still an excellent Chateauneuf-du-Pape, but clearly on the decline from the last bottle I tasted.

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    3/25/2010 - wrote:

    Definitive Rhone (Fabi and Rosi European Kitchen Austin, Texas): Always a great value, this wine shows the power of the vintage for CDP. It had a spicy, sweet, floral nose and wrapped around the tongue, with lots of flavors: caramel, cheap (Hershey) chocolate,raisin, lavender, clove, nutmeg, cranberry, and raspberry. Some found it reductive and closed, and sour, but most enjoyed the size and the palate on the wine....."not mellow" declared a lawyer.

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    11/30/2009 - wrote:

    This was served SBS with the 90 and offered a very different experience. This was a clean bottle -no bret or funk and was elegant and feminine -i was surprised at how light it appeared. i expected a bit more in terms of structure and finish from a bottle of Generations but it was overall very pleasant and enjoyable. Call it "Generations Light".

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  • By Richard Jennings
    2/1/2011, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 96 points

    (Château de la Gardine Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée des Generations Gaston Philippe) Group's #7 (my #2) – 114 pts.; 0, 2, 2, 2 - bricking medium dark red violet color; charcoal, ripe and dried berry, dried cherry, spicy plum, licorice, sweet cigar box nose; tasty, rich, complex, youthful, dried berry, anise, sweet smoke, ripe black fruit, graphite palate, showing a fair amount of new oak, but still a hedonistic pleasure; long finish 96+ points (much, much better than a bretty and presumably poorly stored bottle I had a year and a half back)

  • By Richard Jennings
    3/20/2009, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 90 points

    (Château de la Gardine Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée des Generations Gaston Philippe) Medium bricking garnet red color with light floating sediment and pale meniscus; bretty, mature, cherry flavored gravy and thyme nose; mature, mushroom, tart berry, red fruit, tart plum, and mineral palate, rather arch, with a sense of chlorine and medium-plus acidity; medium finish

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