2006 Vérité La Joie

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  11/18/2020 - mdvillaverde wrote: 93 Points

  Enjoyed over 3 night. Was at its best when I enjoyed it with my meal on night 2. The food cut the acid nicely and let me enjoy the fruit. Wish I had paired with food each night. Fun wine but not sure about it at this price point.

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  5/30/2020 - AaronMaxwell Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Had a taste thanks to SFWineLover1 — an wow, am I impressed. Over the 4+ hours since decant, this wine just kept getting better. This overtook the 2009 Opus One as a slightly better Bordeaux blend.
  
  Elegant, and soft.

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  5/30/2020 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 98 Points

  (A socially-distanced outdoor night of tasting great cabs/Cal Bordeaux + 1 chard with Aaron Maxwell and Tiffany) This was my contribution, bought at auction with a '06 Desir ($300 total) about a year and a half ago. 1 oz pour, then a 2 hour decant. Relatively shy nose of cassis, earth and a bit of smoke, slightly tight on the palate with minerality, dried spices, leather and some plums as well. Dark purple with slight brown notes, medium to full bodied, strong legs. Medium++ acidity and tannins, no heat. Moderate intensity, great complexity and persistence. This wine had the most air and was the oldest of the 3 cabs/blends, yet paradoxically, showed the most development over the evening, becoming deeper, revealing more subtle notes and a profound class and elegance. This was leaner, more structured and generally the most "Bordeaux" of the 3, but the fruit shone through in a way that the Bordeaux I have had has not. We drank this with cheese and charcuterie--many thx AM/T--so didn't really have a chance to evaluate the wines with a meal, but of the 3, I think that this would be the best food wine, with an acidity which would be a spectacular complement to a rack of lamb or ribeye, but this was still great on its own. Steady improvement over the evening makes me think that this has upside, then an extended period at that level. Just a touch more intensity--not that it was lacking by any stretch--and it would have equaled the Spottswoode and the Ovid '12 from a few months ago. Best wine I've ever had from Sonoma by a good bit, which, considering my love for PM LPs, is saying something for me. Memorable, and would certainly buy again, or another vintage or a Desir--I still have mine left--or a Muse at relatively similar prices. 98+

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  4/25/2017 - KPB Likes this wine: 97 Points

  I was very impressed by the 2006 La Joie, which seems to be entering its peak now, at age 11. This was a cool vintage, they explained, and the wine lacks the "overdriven" fruit one often found back in that period from other cabernets in the region. Here, the result is a cooler, deeper, more "sober" expression of cabernet. The nose is plummy and very complex with dark notes, graphite, leather, hints of menthol. Richly flavored with a very suave, soft texture, very balanced and strikingly long. A stunner.
  
  Available from Verite's library for $275/750ml bottle, as are the other 2006 reds (la Joie, Le Desire).

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  2/16/2017 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points

  Cassis nose. Not heavy, enjoyable.

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