2016 Domaine d'Escausses Gaillac La Croix Petite

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 82 points

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  2/6/2022 - Harley1199 Likes this wine:

  By the glass. Proud of its terroir, this wine is tannic, smoked, spicy and full of black fruit. Modest but representative, it can only improve with a few more years.
  
  Por copas. Orgulloso de su terruño, este vino se muestra tánico, ahumado, especiado y fruta negra. Modesto pero representativo sólo puede mejorar con unos cuantos años más.

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  10/9/2018 - forceberry wrote: 82 Points

  A blend of Syrah, Braucol and Cabernet Sauvignon. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite deep and only slightly translucent dark, bloody red appearance. Dense, sweet-toned and quite polished nose with rather modern aromas of sweet, almost marmaladey blackcurrants, some plummy fruit, a little bit of extracted, sweet and toasty oak spice and a hint of milk chocolate. The wine is full-bodied, firm and quite extracted with rich flavors of toasty mocha oak, some fresh dark plums, a little bit of ripe blackcurrant, light smoky charred tones, a hint of blackberry and a sanguine touch of iron. The wine is quite impressively structured with high acidity and rather grippy piling-up tannins. The finish is rich, dense and extremely long with powerful flavors of toasty oak spice, some extracted woody bitterness, a little bit of milk chocolate, light sanguine tones of gamey meat, a hint of ripe blackcurrant and a touch of mocha.
  
  Contrasting the rather simple, fresh and drinkable red wines of Domane d'Escausses, this wine seems more like a blockbuster wine made for the American market - or at least for the Parkerized palates. It is powerful, big and ripe with impressive, tightly-knit structure and ridiculously overdone oak character. Honestly, were this wine served blind to me, I'd never think of Southwest France - probably California, Argentina or Australia. If this wine would've been aged in old, neutral oak barrels, it might've been the best wine in the Escausses red wine range, but now it is just so darn boring and average at best - all the interesting nuances are effectively masked away by the excessive use of oak. The wine might turn out much better with age - but only if this much oak ever integrates with the fruit. Good value at 15€, but not really my style of wine.

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