2003 Château des Tours Vacqueyras

Community Tasting Notes (45) Avg Score: 88.2 points

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  3/25/2024 - pbaek wrote:

  Slowly arriving and certainly a ripe vintage for this wine, but boy is this luxurious, exuberant Grenache. There’s certainly kirsch and Christmas spices on the nose, brown fruit notes. But there’s also flowers and mint and clear red fruit. Rich and ripe cherry fruited palate, pepper notes, spices. There’s lift and air, but make no mistake this is not a ballerina. I love this, and I think there is still 3-5 years to the best window to drink this. Needs some slow cooked food.

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  3/7/2024 - DBdeParis Likes this wine:

  This bottle was a bit unbalanced. Lots of expected Tours elements but they seemed to exaggerate themselves one by one instead of being merged into a transcendent whole.

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  2/19/2023 - beatles wrote: 92 Points

  I am puzzled that I have no notes on this on, as I remember drinking it on several occasions - most prominently at a Tribeca-restaurant, a bottle bought in Warehouse Wine&Spirits; it was a long, long time ago, and a pruny affair as I remember it, and yes, this is still very varm, very ripe with plenty of sweetness, dark spice and local feel. But quite lovely. Tasted over two days, no sign of decline which in itself is a bit surprising.
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  6/17/2022 - Sean Tay wrote: 90 Points

  Having drank a near perfect bottle of Chateau des Tours Vacqueyras where bubble gum, ripe red fruits, ripe strawberry dominated the nose due the carbonic maceration process, I don’t find any of the nose in this bottle. In fact, I felt it have past its prime and suppose to drink earlier. I can find notes of tea, spices, slight mint, cooked red fruits.

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  11/8/2020 - pbaek wrote:

  Still on an upward slope in my view, but certainly warm and rich with notes of kirsch. Susanne finds it too pruny and oxidized. See my last note.

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