Tasted vis-à-vis Chave, this comes across as well made, more rustic, bigger fruit and certainly fruit-driven; a nice wine, bistro and then some, bring in the lapin à moutarde etc.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Tapenade, smokey dry cured bacon, garrigue, iron, red plum. Tannins resolved, acid main structural component now. Beautiful with air. Really like this bottle. Not for anyone looking for fruit-driven at this point.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Medium-bodied, blueberry-fruited, meaty, cinnamon, tangy, nice sweetness-acid balance. At peak. Tastes like a good California Zinfandel (e.g. Ridge Geyserville), but with a much airier texture. Breaks a long streak of disappointing wines for me!
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
No 'spikes' of any particular or obvious aroma, just a melange of subtle dried herb, delicate floral and dusty earth aromas. Elegant, almost delicate palate, with an underlying sweet berry note, dry and with some grip. Wine that has moved on from being fruit juice. Other comments made by the tasters included its resemblance to a recently tried Cote Rotie, a slight green character like fresh crushed plant stems, and also that the Syrah fruit could be identified but was not obvious. Beautiful wine.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.
11/5/2015 - beatles wrote: 89 Points
Tasted vis-à-vis Chave, this comes across as well made, more rustic, bigger fruit and certainly fruit-driven; a nice wine, bistro and then some, bring in the lapin à moutarde etc.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
11/5/2015 - pbaek wrote:
2004 Rhone Tasting chez Lillelund (Lilleund's home): Syrah driven. Pebbery and spicy. Cool. Good core matter, not lean at all. In a good spot now. Just marginally behind the Chave.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/20/2013 - JohnQBoxler wrote:
Tapenade, smokey dry cured bacon, garrigue, iron, red plum. Tannins resolved, acid main structural component now. Beautiful with air. Really like this bottle. Not for anyone looking for fruit-driven at this point.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
2/8/2013 - cooberp Likes this wine: 91 Points
Medium-bodied, blueberry-fruited, meaty, cinnamon, tangy, nice sweetness-acid balance. At peak. Tastes like a good California Zinfandel (e.g. Ridge Geyserville), but with a much airier texture. Breaks a long streak of disappointing wines for me!
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/31/2012 - Shanta wrote: 93 Points
No 'spikes' of any particular or obvious aroma, just a melange of subtle dried herb, delicate floral and dusty earth aromas. Elegant, almost delicate palate, with an underlying sweet berry note, dry and with some grip. Wine that has moved on from being fruit juice. Other comments made by the tasters included its resemblance to a recently tried Cote Rotie, a slight green character like fresh crushed plant stems, and also that the Syrah fruit could be identified but was not obvious. Beautiful wine.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment