2015 Domaine Saint-Damien Gigondas Vieilles Vignes La Louisiane

Community Tasting Notes (57) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  9/21/2023 - SLOFred Likes this wine: 92 Points

  An excellent grenache based GSM/Rhone. Nice fruit, medium body, excellent. I agree with others, probably not something to age too much longer. Tastes great now.

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  9/7/2023 - signotim Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Nicely balanced Southern Rhone wine. This has some slight earthy, rustic character and also nicely ripe fruit that is not overripe. This drinks well now and I'll plan to finish my remaining 2 bottles in the next 2 years.

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  8/2/2023 - Shay.Aldriedge Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This was served during my annual WWC hosting. Typical format of sparkler, three whites, four reds, one dessert, all served blind.
  
  My last of a three-pack. One sadly fell (literally) victim to the pavement. Silver lining is that while I think this can hold in this window for a bit, this wine doesn’t seem to show that it will get better.
  
  Decanted an hour. 80 Grenache/ 15 Mourvèdre/ 5 Syrah & cinsault. To me, this is the Paso style yet in France. It’s big yet has balance…rich and toasty. Loads of garrigue, dark potpurri, and peppered black cherries aromatically. The red fruit streaks through the palate surrounded by bitter dark chocolate, hint of charcoal and mineral. Tasty.

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  7/9/2023 - AMC Eagle wrote: 94 Points

  Pnp. Medium+ garnet-ruby in colour. A very good dose of black cherries, strawberries, some bits of herbs, and hints of smoke and licorice are noted on the nose. On the palate, there ripe black cherries with raspberries along with rhubarb and a touch of candied red fruits and black peppers at the end. Medium+ bodied with a medium+ finish. Last tasted February 2020.

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  6/21/2023 - COWineLover wrote: 80 Points

  An “off” bottle. Aromatically this has good qualities with raspberry and lavender but the palate is thin and diluted with a heavy charcoal and not much else.

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