2012 Domaine Auguste Clape Côtes du Rhône

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  4/6/2024 - xwine wrote:

  Certainly not your basic pot de côtes! Deep and substantial. In essence, a baby Corna. Has many years left.

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  8/5/2023 - beatles wrote: 92 Points

  Drinking like a mini-Cornas, this is showing all the fixers in terms of iron, blood and stone; black olives galore. With a couple of hours of air this is smooth as the vintage, cool, calm and collected - and ready fir business with plenty of orimary fruit. Will have a long life, but no sin to drink it now.

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  1/28/2023 - skipwine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Superb about 20 minutes from opening as it began to open up. Rich full bouquet and body and medium/long finish. A classic CDR in every way! And still drinking well the second day after vacuvin and fridge storage.

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  12/19/2020 - xwine wrote:

  This had a pretty poopy nose, and the palate was like licking drywall. Left it alone and came back to it the next day. Maybe it was simply suffering from reduction; it was a totally different wine. Deep, dark fruit, nice texture, a pleasure to drink. Go figure.

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  11/13/2020 - nectar14 Likes this wine:

  My last of these, and easily the best. More chiseled, earth-rooted, and vertically built. Plenty of fruit, but not heavy or plodding at all. What you want in a northern Rhone Syrah. Very good.

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