2014 Domaine du Gros 'Noré Bandol Cuvée IX

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  1/14/2024 - Jabulani Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark and powerful, blackcurrant and blackberry, cloves and charcoal, really lovely aromas. The palate continues the theme, with bright acidity balancing very ripe tannin, big, broad and silky. This is a very serious, impressive wine. Plenty of life ahead, although it is very tasty already.
  
  A single-vineyard bottling only made in this vintage; 85% Mourvèdre, 5% Cinsault, 5% Grenache, 5% Carignan, vinified in the same way as the regular Bandol and the Cuvee Antoinette.

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  1/6/2024 - cugel_saga Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Benefits from a few hours decanting.
  
  Spicy, peppery mountainside herbs. Smooth and velvety. Layers of interest; tobacco and parma violet are hinted at, dark fruit and leather.
  
  Rollicking good stuff.

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  6/7/2023 - ziggecg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark, herbaceous with lots of licorice. Drink today or in +10 years, this has lots of aging potential still.

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  10/10/2021 - gtilley wrote:

  I was very impressed with this. Really multi layered - savoury, fruity (both distinct sweet cherry and darker brambly fruit), leather, minty, smoky, peppery - it really offers a full spectrum of aromas and flavours. It's still very primary, nevertheless it's approachable and not overdone. Plenty of life ahead of it.

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  1/2/2021 - cugel_saga Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Deep purple, deep tasting and resolutely interesting.
  
  Gamey and lightly peppered with tonnes of character. I feel different tastes reveal themselves in different mouthfuls and the dense structure of this wine is both challenging and enjoyable.
  
  Very good.

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