2012 Domaine Grand Nicolet Rasteau Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  12/27/2018 - Dancing with bottles wrote: 87 Points

  To hot and to jammy, lacking fruit and acid for my taste.

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  12/10/2017 - huse wrote: 89 Points

  Muscular Rasteau wine with a varietal composition of 50 % Grenache, 35 % Syrah and 15 % Mourvèdre (clay and limestone soils). The three varieties were vinified separately and aged in concrete tanks ; only the Syrah component was partly matured in oak barrels (twelve months). I gave this wine about sixty minutes of air prior to consumption. Dense dark red colored wine revealing scents of kirsch liqueur, dried herbs, licorice and a hint of graphite. The full-bodied, alcohol dominated palate shows ripe bramble and plum fruit and still quite present tannins. Spicy aftertaste. Drinking window: now–2021.
  
  Kloeke Rasteau-wijn met een samenstelling van 50 % Grenache, 35 % Syrah en 15 % Mourvèdre (klei- en kalksteenbodems). De drie soorten werden apart gevinifieerd en rijpten in betonnen tanks; alleen een deel van de Syrah verbleef twaalf maanden in eiken vaten. Ik liet de wijn een uurtje ademen vóór consumptie. Een dichte, donkerrood gekleurde wijn met aroma’s van kirsch, gedroogde kruiden, zoethout en ook een vleugje grafiet. Het krachtige, door alcohol gedomineerde smaakpatroon is gekenmerkt door rijp bramen- en pruimenfruit, maar de tannines zijn toch nog vrij stug. Kruidige afdronk. Te drinken: nu–2021.

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  11/5/2015 - David J Cooper wrote: 90 Points

  Fairly dark red. Lots of red fruit, it really softens up as it breathes. More ripeness and less green then the 2011. Not as interesting as the very herbal and delicious 11.
  
  Most people will love this

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  10/17/2015 - kaush Likes this wine: 89 Points

  It was a bit too hot and jammy for me on day one. But it developed wings over the next few days with some surprising acidity and a nice balance which was quite different from what it was on the first day. Who knew!

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  10/16/2015 - WineJudge Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Very good $23

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