Light medium red with clear edges. Medium intense nose of earth, berry, plum and thyme. Develops hints of black pepper and just keeps improving until it’s gone. Delicious earthy berry flavours and a beautiful balanced finish.
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Just out of curiosity, I opened a bottle of the 1997 Château de Saint-Cosme Gigondas just to see how it was doing. While the 98 I had a couple of days ago was good, this one kicks ass! It elicited no less than 3 "Hey, this is pretty good!" from SWMBO, and she is not very free with her compliments to wines. And it was! Riper than the 98 but also sweeter going in and longer finish. Down to my last case and it is being moved to current drinking status!
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Tuesday Night Double Blind $40+ (Alpharetta, GA): Cloudy dull brick with paler rim; soy, orange peel, cedar, tobacco, sour cherry, denser aged nose; more glycerin on the palate, brick dust, mushroom, cooked red fruit, complex, aged and very interesting; was on '98 CdP before I remembered having this a few times- the brick dust was the giveaway, nailed it.
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Tuesday Night Double Blind $60+ (Bin 75): Dull brownish brick, large light rim, lots of sediment; loads of spice, sweet cranberry, raspberry, leather, brick dust, animal, sweat, vegetal almost radish, aged and very complex; sour fruit, dried leaves, herbs, spicy, very medicinal, less fruit, lots of leather, aspirin; drink now as this should not improve any more, fully developed and very interesting it has held up this long; previous bottles 2 years ago were drinking better.
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4/23/2019 - David J Cooper wrote: 92 Points
Light medium red with clear edges. Medium intense nose of earth, berry, plum and thyme. Develops hints of black pepper and just keeps improving until it’s gone. Delicious earthy berry flavours and a beautiful balanced finish.
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2/13/2019 - David J Cooper wrote: 88 Points
Medium light red. Spicy red berry fruit nose, fairly light but still hanging on. Soft herbal red fruit nose and a very acid driven finish.
Very nice 1997 Gigondas that is still providing some pleasure long after it's predicted best before date.
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1/7/2017 - wspohn wrote:
Just out of curiosity, I opened a bottle of the 1997 Château de Saint-Cosme Gigondas just to see how it was doing. While the 98 I had a couple of days ago was good, this one kicks ass! It elicited no less than 3 "Hey, this is pretty good!" from SWMBO, and she is not very free with her compliments to wines. And it was! Riper than the 98 but also sweeter going in and longer finish. Down to my last case and it is being moved to current drinking status!
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11/15/2016 - Rezy13 wrote:
Tuesday Night Double Blind $40+ (Alpharetta, GA): Cloudy dull brick with paler rim; soy, orange peel, cedar, tobacco, sour cherry, denser aged nose; more glycerin on the palate, brick dust, mushroom, cooked red fruit, complex, aged and very interesting; was on '98 CdP before I remembered having this a few times- the brick dust was the giveaway, nailed it.
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5/6/2014 - Rezy13 wrote:
Tuesday Night Double Blind $60+ (Bin 75): Dull brownish brick, large light rim, lots of sediment; loads of spice, sweet cranberry, raspberry, leather, brick dust, animal, sweat, vegetal almost radish, aged and very complex; sour fruit, dried leaves, herbs, spicy, very medicinal, less fruit, lots of leather, aspirin; drink now as this should not improve any more, fully developed and very interesting it has held up this long; previous bottles 2 years ago were drinking better.
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