Perfect cork, no seepage. Popped and poured. Tasted over 90 minutes.
V: dark red, no bricking. N:Muted, little fruit, a bit of charred oak, liquorice. P: Smooth texture, fruit a bit thin. Not much in the way of typicity either. Insipid flavours and length. We both found the oak to be too prominent and clumsy for the lower fruit intensity.
Drink or hold to 2020, unlikely to improve. 13% abv
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Lots of bacon fat, red cherry and pepper. The meat and bacon come on strong initially but then give way to the fruit. After an hour in the decanter very enjoyable.
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Sunday Brown Bag Tasting: 2009 Gigondas (Hoyer's): Mix of red and dark fruit, bacon, pepper and florals. Flavors of red currants, bacon and pepper. Well-integrated and nicely balanced with a long finish.
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2/13/2016 - Tony Molester wrote:
Perfect cork, no seepage.
Popped and poured. Tasted over 90 minutes.
V: dark red, no bricking.
N:Muted, little fruit, a bit of charred oak, liquorice.
P: Smooth texture, fruit a bit thin. Not much in the way of typicity either. Insipid flavours and length. We both found the oak to be too prominent and clumsy for the lower fruit intensity.
Drink or hold to 2020, unlikely to improve.
13% abv
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10/11/2013 - no leashes wrote: 90 Points
Lots of bacon fat, red cherry and pepper. The meat and bacon come on strong initially but then give way to the fruit. After an hour in the decanter very enjoyable.
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5/19/2013 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points
Sunday Brown Bag Tasting: 2009 Gigondas (Hoyer's): Mix of red and dark fruit, bacon, pepper and florals. Flavors of red currants, bacon and pepper. Well-integrated and nicely balanced with a long finish.
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10/23/2011 - no leashes wrote: 90 Points
Elegant structure with red cherry, game, pepper flavors, nicely balanced and drinking well.
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9/23/2011 - pepeelvis wrote: flawed
dust
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