Pretty good. It was holding up ok actually, showing its grenache with dusty strawberry and raspberry flavors, with some black fruit, too. But not great.
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Initially opened a little tight but quickly opened up with nice fruit and balance at 10 mins. Problem was within the next hour onward quickly turned harsh, fruit took a back seat to the wood. Dumped the last glass +. May be over the hill as I don't think this will improve much.
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Too oaky. Creaminess is not what I'm looking for in a Rhone style wine. Bought this because I liked the 2000 version pretty well a few months ago, but that was a lot more sophisticated, and I don't this it was just the age difference. The characteristics of the Rhone varietals isn't coming through at all. Also a little too sweet to be a good food wine. I know some others have posted positive tasting notes on this, but I have to respectfully disagree.
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4/15/2009 - pgm wrote: 86 Points
Pretty good. It was holding up ok actually, showing its grenache with dusty strawberry and raspberry flavors, with some black fruit, too. But not great.
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1/30/2006 - cmr wrote: 80 Points
Initially opened a little tight but quickly opened up with nice fruit and balance at 10 mins. Problem was within the next hour onward quickly turned harsh, fruit took a back seat to the wood. Dumped the last glass +. May be over the hill as I don't think this will improve much.
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2/25/2005 - amoses wrote: 88 Points
Grenache on the attack, Syrah on the sustain. Nice complexity, not fully integrated (perhaps with time), but great for the price. B
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1/16/2005 - PatLee wrote:
Nice fruit. Good smoke flavors with some earthiness. Goes down easy with Zachery's pizza. Hard to beat for $11.
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12/23/2004 - cab wrote:
Too oaky. Creaminess is not what I'm looking for in a Rhone style wine. Bought this because I liked the 2000 version pretty well a few months ago, but that was a lot more sophisticated, and I don't this it was just the age difference. The characteristics of the Rhone varietals isn't coming through at all. Also a little too sweet to be a good food wine. I know some others have posted positive tasting notes on this, but I have to respectfully disagree.
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