Great condition bottle. Pronounced elegant whilst rustic, peppery, leathery, spicy nose with a little mushroom and funk. Delicious and juicy palate with very long finish. Magnificent
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A beautiful powerful yet refined Northern Rhone. Loads of pepperiness and deep red fruits. The complexity is amazing as different flavours and attributes come through.
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I have little to add to my TN of a bottle of 2 years ago other than that I find this even better than a recent very good bottle of Clape's 96; richer, fresher and better integrated. Excellent.
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Highly enjoyable once it had time to settle down. After a few hours, this showed layers of crunchy dark fruit. Very vibrant wine and it has this alluring cool-inflected character. I expect the savory elements to become more prominent as this gains additional complexity. Not sure this will ever be grand but it will be very attractive for a long time.
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(Thierry Allemand Cornas Reynard) Very dark red violet color; tobacco, cigar box nose; tasty, cigar box, tobacco, tart red plum, mineral palate; medium-plus finish (some, including someone who'd had this wine before, thought there was a touch of TCA impacting the palate)
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5/14/2022 - Bullethead Likes this wine: 97 Points
Great condition bottle. Pronounced elegant whilst rustic, peppery, leathery, spicy nose with a little mushroom and funk. Delicious and juicy palate with very long finish. Magnificent
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8/4/2021 - cfk49 wrote: 97 Points
Phenomenal bottle with smoke, meat, density, definition. Cellared since original release.
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12/31/2020 - dhtabor Likes this wine: 98 Points
A beautiful powerful yet refined Northern Rhone. Loads of pepperiness and deep red fruits. The complexity is amazing as different flavours and attributes come through.
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10/27/2018 - eboracum Likes this wine: 94 Points
I have little to add to my TN of a bottle of 2 years ago other than that I find this even better than a recent very good bottle of Clape's 96; richer, fresher and better integrated. Excellent.
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7/12/2018 - rc@ughey wrote:
Highly enjoyable once it had time to settle down. After a few hours, this showed layers of crunchy dark fruit. Very vibrant wine and it has this alluring cool-inflected character. I expect the savory elements to become more prominent as this gains additional complexity. Not sure this will ever be grand but it will be very attractive for a long time.
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