2012 Tablas Creek Tannat

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  5/20/2023 - tward Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Excellent++
  This lone bottle of 2012 Tablas Creek Tannat had been slumbering for eight years in the cellar and was ready for its night with cassoulet where it was a great pairing. This Tannat is also drinking great on its own. Opens with spice box on the nose and some eucalyptus, sour cherry in the mouth, faint cigar comes in on the nose, plummy and even a hint of chocolate (are we sure no Mourvedre found its way in there), with air cedar, tart blackberry, prune, a hint of licorice, pine forest, hints of smoke. Great core of dark fruits, but mid+ weight. Tannins are resolved and show just a tiny bite.
  
  (Given that this bottle was stored in good, dark conditions, around average temperature in the low-60s F, bottles stored at ideal 55 F might still be somewhat youthful and could require a decant?)
  
  14.1% abv

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  1/15/2023 - SLOFred Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Above average wine. Drinking really well right now. Nice fruit and complexity

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  8/10/2022 - wilypod Likes this wine: 89 Points

  I like both Tannat and Petite Sirah, two of the more tannic red wines on offer. It is peculiar that I enjoy them both young when the tannins are quite assertive. At ten years this wine is still puckering but not at all forbidding. Bright color, good acidity, black cherry fruit. There is also good minerality and a touch of glazed teriyaki.

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  7/18/2022 - SLOFred Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I must say, one of the best pure tannat bottlings I have enjoyed. Needed a 3 hour decant, but really opened up. I would drink up, but there is still life in this wine.

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  4/1/2022 - bstouch wrote: 92 Points

  Cherry and plum. Long legs. Opens up after an hour decant. Balance of sweet and tart with a dry finish on the tip of the tongue. Aromas of oak and vanilla.

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