1994 Domaine du Cayron Gigondas

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  2/25/2022 - Mige wrote:

  This was supposed to be way over the hill years ago and it did felt like it when I pop 'n poured it but after 2h it started singing. Seductive perfume, truffels, dried red berries and some cigar box. On the palate it's really complex and vivid with still some grippy tannins. I finished this bottle easily all by myself. Such a treat.

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  11/7/2009 - Brad L wrote:

  This took me off guard. Very sweet and full, like an Amarone, "port-like", Worcestershire sauce, marzipan, old closet in nose, hmm....
  
  Still, much more put together than most 94 CnP's.

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  10/3/2009 - Ian S wrote:

  Last bottle of a variable half-case picked up at auction. Thankfully this bottle on form.
  
  Some age showing at the rim, but pretty healthy colour for it's age. It's somewhat peppery, even sawdust-like on the nose with a faint whiff of truffle. Not much in the way of primary fruit now.
  
  Quite rich-textured on the palate, with peppery fruit that's more full than the nose suggested. The finish lacks a little length due to a drying finish, but there is some residual flavour of good complexity.
  
  Overall a good bottle and interesting wine, and though an ideal candidate for cellaring, there is more variability than you'd want and it's difficult to imagine there's an obvious and accepted 'peak', just different stages in the wine's life (even more so than with other cellaring wines).

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  6/27/2009 - Ian S wrote:

  Hmmm. Had suspected previous two bottles to have been corked. This perhaps throws one of them into to doubt. Certainly a vaguely musty nose, not disimilar to the earlier bottle, yet I'm coming round towards thinking the aroma might be something else. In this instance it's fighting a battle with the fruit and whilst just coming out on top, it doesn't appear to be scalping the fruit. It's also showing a little more barnyardy, so perhaps a strain of Brett?
  
  The good bottles from this lot are excellent, this palatable yet ultimately flawed.

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  3/18/2005 - jrj wrote: 87 Points

  Color not deep but still ruby. Medium body. Nose of earth and black cherry. Pleasant wine, not too much fruit but moderate amounts of fine tannins. Loosely-knit, not deep or complex. Aftertaste glycerine and pepper.

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