2016 Domaine Saint-Damien Gigondas Les Souteyrades

Community Tasting Notes (39) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  2/3/2024 - samatoid Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Popped and poured. Was quite surprised to find the wine a little dull and flat. Still obviously full of fruit and yet to shed its tannin in any meaningful way, but not really fun to drink. If I had to rate it - maybe 88 for enjoyment. We put the 1/2 we didn’t drink back in the fridge. Not expecting much the next day but kaboom. Explosive blackberry with lots of backend spices. Extremely enjoyable. 95+ it will continue to get better. Looking through the notes it seems to me most people are underestimating the necessary aeration - like I did.

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  1/26/2024 - wetlandwino wrote: 92 Points

  Lovely wine.

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  1/4/2024 - Highlander wrote:

  Gave this a 5 hour decant. This is good now, but will get better. Big flavours, tannins were fine with the 5 hours of decanting. Excellent QPR

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  12/31/2023 - CWilliam wrote: flawed

  Must have been an off bottle given other notes on CT - wine had an over-ripe flavor profile and wonder if this went through a secondary fermentation. NR

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  11/25/2023 - D_RICH wrote: 93 Points

  No contemporaneous notes. Third of five bottles, one gifted. Decanted. Served immediately after the 2016 Coudelet de Beaucastel; this was far more concentrated. Still young, this only started to show well after about 1 1/2 -2 hours of air in a decanter - displaying a nice nose, with the sweetness, so evident on the plate upon opening, softening a bit. Shared with the same friend who also consumed my first bottle of this, over 2 years ago - and his opinion on the wine has changed, he now likes it. Judgment still reserved, but this will end up in the 92-94 range. I will keep my remaining two bottles for another couple of years before consuming. ADDENDUM: Day 2. Dark purple ruby. Earth and dark fruit on the nose. Very concentrated, sweet red fruits, complex. I do prefer less extraction/sweetness in my wines, but this has mellowed - a little. This could use more time but it is excellent now - with sufficient air time. (92-93). ADDENDUM: Day 3. Really showing its best today, even while still cold from the frig. (93),

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