2015 Château de la Dauphine

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 88.6 points

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  4/8/2024 - egoya Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Fully mature, medium bodied, hedonistic - a big positive surprise!

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  3/3/2024 - Jmph Likes this wine: 88 Points

  88 initial taste. Cork was dry and broke.

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  2/27/2024 - pinkhouse wrote: 86 Points

  A bit heavy and flavors of stewed plums. Not what I had anticipated. Perhaps an off bottle.

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  1/2/2024 - Golf_Wine Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Bought at a visit at the vinyard around the release time. Clean red wine. After 1.5 hours. Nose is beautiful, almost Margaux like, floral, purple and white lilies, pinesap, almond paste, Marciano cherries, blue ripe fruits, new leather a very pleasant nose. Nose alone puts it in a higher category of wine. Nose of a $100+ Bordeaux. Had it with black garlic risotto and butter pan fried chanterelle and pan seared filet mignon, butter and rosemary, and it all was amazing. I read some reviews talking about very tannic etc. To me not at all. I wonder if those reviewers had it with some spicy food food which Merlot just can't handle, it turns into a bitter wine with spicy food. This wine is just entering its drinking window to me. We balanced while still drinks young. Drinking red fruits and berries, blue fruits, blackberries, some tannins on the backend and with a rather long finish where I get a bit of oak but just enough to give the wine some weight, some alcohol. Slightest bitterness on the gums on the long finish when I swish the wine around . It drinks like a balanced young wine. A very good value wine.

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  5/3/2023 - ChristoBretts Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Opened and let sit for two hours, recorked and drank over three days. Some black fruit on the nose, but mostly closed. Jammy on the palate along with lively tannin, no secondary development at this stage. Drinkable now, will likely pick up a point or so in two plus years.

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