I must say I’m impressed that this bottle has held up as well as it did. A deep cellar find, it’s on its last legs, but not bad by any means. Fully brick red at this point, it mostly comes out with earthy notes, but a short time in the glass coaxed out some nice fruit notes, and just a touch of iron. Worth opening still, but I’d expect a quick fall off from here.
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Big Bottle Party 2016 (Restaurant Parkheuvel **, Rotterdam, NL): Impériale. Mature but lively appearance, good depth of colour; freshness and evolution, complete and deep, spices and beef stock, warm and glowing, cinnamon, ripe red berries, transparent, vibrant and energetic, thinning on the palate, mineral but not drying, long. Really benefits from the large bottle size.
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Cork was ok, minimal seepage evidence. V:Faded, translucent garnet. N: a bit muted, eventually opens to nice crushed strawberry and garrigue. P: Reasonable length, velvety smooth grenache. Still has some fruit, fading though. Drink up 13.8% abv.
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10/16/2023 - MBurka wrote: 89 Points
I must say I’m impressed that this bottle has held up as well as it did. A deep cellar find, it’s on its last legs, but not bad by any means. Fully brick red at this point, it mostly comes out with earthy notes, but a short time in the glass coaxed out some nice fruit notes, and just a touch of iron. Worth opening still, but I’d expect a quick fall off from here.
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11/13/2016 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 Points
Big Bottle Party 2016 (Restaurant Parkheuvel **, Rotterdam, NL): Impériale. Mature but lively appearance, good depth of colour; freshness and evolution, complete and deep, spices and beef stock, warm and glowing, cinnamon, ripe red berries, transparent, vibrant and energetic, thinning on the palate, mineral but not drying, long. Really benefits from the large bottle size.
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5/12/2015 - Tony Molester Likes this wine:
Cork was ok, minimal seepage evidence.
V:Faded, translucent garnet.
N: a bit muted, eventually opens to nice crushed strawberry and garrigue.
P: Reasonable length, velvety smooth grenache. Still has some fruit, fading though.
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13.8% abv.
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11/27/2014 - jsebiri wrote:
opened nicely , very well made mature red , no stink , fading fast though after about a half hour losing fruit , tasting less nice
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7/3/2013 - no leashes wrote: 90 Points
Still drinking nicely, a fully aged chateauneuf-du-pape.
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