2016 Cline Cellars Mourvèdre Ancient Vines

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 88.0 points

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  2/4/2022 - Tcraig88 Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Smooth. Medium body, medium+ acidity. Dried fruit nose

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  1/15/2022 - Ital_1970 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Frugtbombe.
  Køb igen

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  12/8/2021 - forceberry wrote: 84 Points

  Made with Mourvèdre sourced from two of the oldest Cline vineyards, Bridgehead and Big Break in Oakley. Fermented spontaneously in stainless steel, aged in heavily toasted American oak barrels. 14,5% alcohol. Tasted blind.
  
  Somewhat translucent cherry red color with a youthful crimson hue. The nose is fragrant, sweet and quite expressive with almost crowdpleaser aromas of very ripe cherry-drive red fruits, some licorice, a little bit of sweet toasty oak spice, light boysenberry tones, jammy hints of raspberry and strawberry marmalade and a touch of vanilla. The wine is ripe, full-bodied and slightly hot on the palate with quite lush flavors of licorice, sweet oak spice, some boysenberry jam, a little bit of vanilla, light cherry marmalade tones, mulled wine hints of cloves and raisins and a touch of overripe strawberry. The overall feel is very juicy with a silky texture and quite soft structure, thanks to the medium acidity and quite gentle, ripe and polished tannins. The finish is long, rich and quite warm with lush flavors of strawberry jam, some vanilla, a little bit of ripe red cherry and dark plummy fruit, light boysenberry tones, a hint of cloves and a touch of raspberry jam.
  
  A rather soft, mellow and modernized Mourvèdre where this often robust and feral variety has been trimmed down into a soft, sweet and quite heavily oaked crowdpleaser. Rich, ripe and mellow with quite little in the way of structure or varietal color. Although the wine is still youthful and probably will continue to develop for years more, I really don't see much upside to cellaring this wine any further - it feels it really isn't going to become any more interesting than what it is now and most likely it is showing its best while it is in its exuberant youth. Not that it is much. I'm not particularly impressed.

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  1/9/2021 - Julie Harrison Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Even from start to finish, mature, smooth, ripe, luscious dark berries throughout with a hint of anise in the background. It was ready to be opened and enjoyed.

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  12/1/2020 - Ital_1970 wrote: 86 Points

  En frugt bombe - næsten for meget, mangler lidt struktur

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