I opened this with thirtyoneknots with high expectations. Wow. Damnation. Ok, to be fair, things started well. Wine was decanted and nose presented itself with a massive fruit explosion of blackberry and that bizarre rotten cassis whiff that mourvedre is so famous for. The wine is old vine syrah and mourvedre, though the % are unknown to me. I am a huge fan of that nether region between the Rhone and Languedoc, and had high hopes for this. Perhaps I should have realized what the '03 heat wave did to this part of France. This wine was hot, very hot, and not in a good way. The fruit dissipated (burned off) and after an hour in the decanter a hot sludgy grotesque facsimile of whatever it was supposed to be remained.
That said, this is from the Mas de Bressades folks, a wine I adore, so I will give another vintage a crack with this one.
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3/28/2008 - ProfessorHTF wrote: 74 Points
I opened this with thirtyoneknots with high expectations. Wow. Damnation. Ok, to be fair, things started well. Wine was decanted and nose presented itself with a massive fruit explosion of blackberry and that bizarre rotten cassis whiff that mourvedre is so famous for. The wine is old vine syrah and mourvedre, though the % are unknown to me. I am a huge fan of that nether region between the Rhone and Languedoc, and had high hopes for this. Perhaps I should have realized what the '03 heat wave did to this part of France. This wine was hot, very hot, and not in a good way. The fruit dissipated (burned off) and after an hour in the decanter a hot sludgy grotesque facsimile of whatever it was supposed to be remained.
That said, this is from the Mas de Bressades folks, a wine I adore, so I will give another vintage a crack with this one.
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4/9/2006 - Big Dog wrote: 88 Points
Great value - only paid $9.99
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1/23/2006 - lalawchick wrote: 88 Points
Blackberries, currant, somewhat tannic, but not overly so
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12/10/2005 - espia wrote:
Nice potent nose of dates, garrigue. Good body.
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2/28/2005 - jamesbc wrote: 87 Points
Good wine, didn't especially knock me over.
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