2012 Château d'Aydie Madiran Odé d'Aydie

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  1/6/2018 - df1962 wrote: 91 Points

  PnP. Dark dense purple with clear rim. Light blackberry pie and ash on the nose. Medium weight with ripe slightly grippy black tea tannins. Nicely ripe black and red fruits with a touch of ash and herbs. Big and elegant. Like it a lot.

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  1/2/2018 - macaujames Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Very young and needs laying down a couple of years. Tried this with the Basque dish of veal Axoa and Basque cheese and this went down a real treat! It has fullish aromas of blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, menthol, cedar and cherries. Its medium bodied opulent freshly fruited, a bit four square black and blue fruits palate has good delineation. Ends longish, a bit tannic but with lovely freshness. 14.5%. Thrives on 4 hrs+ aeration!

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  9/19/2017 - Marius Cavasdan Likes this wine: 88 Points

  100% tannat from madiran south west France. Aged for 15 months in oak foudres. Its deep red. Ink like. Initial nose is closed. After decanting it opens up. Blackberries. Black fruits. Good acidity. Palate is fresh, strong but pleasant tannins. Has years ahead. Very good with magret de canard

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  9/23/2016 - chatters wrote:

  Planet of the Grapes (Planet of the Grapes, Bow Lane): More vinfanticide. Despite double decanting for 90 minutes. Towards the end of the bottle it was showing quite rich blackcurrant and plum notes with, unsurprisingly, plentiful tannins. A mistake to have opened this.

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  8/21/2016 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  Odé is the second wine of the estate, made completely from Tannat. The grapes are macerated with the fermenting wine for 30 days, after which the wine is aged for 12–15 months in oak tuns and vats. Then the wine is blended together and finally bottled after 20 months of aging.
  
  The wine is dark-cherry colored with a bit of translucency. The nose is rich and expressive with opulent and rather sweet aromas of freshly picked, ripe forest fruits, some cocoa oak, a little bit of plum jam and a hint of milk chocolate. The wine is full-bodied and quite textural with moderately high acidity and very ample, yet surprisingly soft and friendly tannins. Although obviously quite ripe, the wine is surprisingly savory and bitter with flavors of bloody iron, sappy greenness, astringent berry skin notes, some tangy chokeberry and crowberry notes and a bit of woody bitterness, counterpointed by sweeter oak notes of milk chocolate and cocoa. The finish is as coarse and bitter as the midpalate with flavors of chokeberries, quite rich, complex and somewhat sweet oak character, a bit of bitter milk chocolate, a little bit of ripe dark plums and a hint of sappy greenness.
  
  Obviously Odé d'Aydie is a modern Madiran with its very noticeable, sweet oak characteristics and surprisingly mellow and easy tannins. Yet the wine is very true to the Madiran style with its noticeably bitter flavor profile – most likely due to the sheer volume of tannins in the wine. Normally you really don't taste tannins – they just show some level of mouth-drying astringency – but if there is enough of tannins in the wine, you start to taste them as a bitter flavor. What's remarkable here is how the tannins have been cleaned out into the background, yet they obviously are there. In conclusion, this is really not my style of wine – I like my Madirans more tannic and less oaky, thank you very much – but for a relatively easy-drinking Tannat this was a decent effort. Nothing groundbreaking, but a decent wine for a modern Southwesterner. The winery promises 8–10 of aging potential for the wine, maybe that kind of cellar time could help the oak integrate a little bit. Priced according to its quality at 10,20€ for a 12 cl glass in a restaurant.

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