2014 Domaine de Piaugier Côtes du Rhône Villages Sablet

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 88.2 points

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  5/14/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  From a bottle stood for weeks and decanted clear. A half teaspoon of sandy, crumbled solids at the bottom was less than I expected! Pour a glass. Feed a cat. Smell the wine. The aroma is clad in sheets of dark red berry, and embroidered with discrete figures of pan crust, stone, anise, and tobacco. It promises to be ripe.
  A drink indicates vestigial pupescence—boney knuckles strain to shed stuck cotton gloves. Its thirst for air is legible from the beginning. Within 30 minutes, it finds traction. Dark cherries with broken pits entrain dried herbs (fossils that chime mint) black plum, tar, and sour perfume. The event is as attenuated as it is saturating—tannins, tense as rope. Big, and self-contained. A bitter spine through its vertical axis is so productive of flavor that it confesses its role as the motive energy plant. If fresh air were intaglio ink. Inventory says I have one bottle left for the 10 year drinking window I see in its future. I'll aim for 2024-2029.
  
  FOODT NOTE: with tacos lamb, guac, and salsa ranchera the wine leaned out, becoming more floral and transparently mineral-bitter. It was a good combo, especially considering the informational delta.

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  5/1/2021 - Putnam Weekley wrote: 91 Points

  Telltale blood-iron and cinnamon garnish ripe red berries. After 48 hours the bouquet is strewn with licorice, cola, prune, lemon zest, and peppermint. A drink. of it is more compelling today. It amounts to an invitation to drink spiced berry ooze. Still, I'm surprised by how lean and structured it is. Scorched mineral. Sage. Classical ruptures of juice resolve in salt-dry tannins. If we assume no bottle variation, then this wine has transformed suddenly since the last bottle I drank 6+ months ago. It was feral, now it's domesticated. It was glaring, now it's measured. 91 points. I think this wine has arrived at its destination. I'll keep another couple bottles for future vertical and retrospective occasions.

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  9/30/2017 - mdefreitas wrote: 88 Points

  Similar to my last bottle. Perhaps a bit more simple in flavor, but quite enjoyable and fruit-filled.

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  9/22/2017 - CarpeVinum Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Very solid everyday drinking Rhone. Solid QPR.

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  9/21/2017 - mdefreitas wrote: 89 Points

  Very enjoyable and a good value as well. Shows good, ripe red fruit without being too flamboyant. Good, balanced structure and nice Rhone-ish character of herbs, pepper and moist earth.

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