1969 E. Guigal Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 94 points

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  1/2/2020 - dbkitc wrote: 93 Points

  This bottle was quite an upside surprise and certainly the most youthful of the 1969’s sampled this month. Sweet berry fruit mixed nicely with leather and earth accents. Mature for sure but holding it color and fruit remarkably well. (93)

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  7/29/2015 - Mistress of Wine Likes this wine:

  Perfectly stored half bottle. Garnet colored. Expansive aromas of black currant, coffee, tobacco and tar. Quite young with firm tannins, reads almost muscular on the palate. On its own, this would have been spectacular but it didn't have the haunting qualities of the Cote-Rotie Brune et Blonde from the same vintage. I know--what a problem to have.

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  10/10/2009 - ekenneth wrote: 95 Points

  I was pleasantly surprised how good this was for a 40-year old wine. This was a half-bottle, with good fill, and the cork came out clean. At first, there was only a musty smell and acid, but it plumped up nicely after a half-hour or so and it kept getting better for a while. The mustiness blew off and there was brilliant red fruit with a lot of structure remaining. Incredible!

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  12/22/2007 - 60ouvrees wrote:

  Tasted alongside the Cote Rotie from the same vintage. Both are still providing lots of drinking pleasure but the Cote Rotie is clearly the better wine.

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  3/13/2007 - sivilli wrote:

  The bottle had been slow oxygenated for about 4 hours - this poured a lucid garnet with browning at the rim. Nose has an explosive brewed coffee note - can't miss it. As it is swirled in the glass, the complexity shows itself - decayed leaves, figs, underbrush, tobacco. This had a robust and clearly delineated nose - very nice. On the palate, this seemed a bit dried out to me - the tannins were completely resolved, but this faded a bit and didn't show the length or complexity I had hoped. Overall, very enjoyable and should be drunk soon.

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