2005 Bonny Doon Vineyard Le Cigare Volant

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  7/13/2015 - Trekntravel Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Like most people got this bottle from Bonny Doon wine club. Been stored in a cool place in my house not professional storage. Opened the bottle and it was probably at the top of perfection. Exactly what one would expect from the Le Cigare Volant. Even though the prior notes on this bottle indicate to drink by 2014, it can still go a couple more years in storage without decling in quality. Served it with a thick high quality rib eye using a pepper, fennel and chili flake spice rub from june July 2015 issue of Saveur as shown on cover. Great wine with a great steak.

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  9/1/2014 - umazz Likes this wine: 90 Points

  outstanding. I would compare it to a very good Vacqueyras.

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  8/10/2014 - Zoomin Z Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Complex nose of burnt juniper, eucalyptus, and ripe red fruit, medium bodied, very smooth with ultra, ultra fine tannins leaving a long finish. Perfectly drinking now, bravo!

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  12/31/2013 - owr Likes this wine: 88 Points

  I dug a little deeper into the cellar for this next one, Bonny Doon Vineyard 2005 Le Cigar Volant, this is a Rhone Valley style blend made in the US of A (50% Grenache, 24% Mourvedre, 22% Syrah, 3% Carignane, 1% cinsault) and with 7 years on it the Rhone pedigree really come through in the form of smoky notes and touches of pepper on the nose; the palate has pencil shavings, cassis, wood smoke, and peppered-raspberry. I really liked the complexity without the over indulgence of too much fruit.

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  11/3/2013 - Marole wrote: 90 Points

  Better than many Ch9dP in the same pricerange, purer and without the alcoholic kick you get with most modern southern Rhones of today = a + in my book. Drinking well now.

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