A Mid-Summer Sunday Supper in Wandsworth (Chez Bruce): Blood, iron, redcurrants and few pipette drops of grapefruit juice. With air a little rosehip too.. Palate very savoury and more-ish. With some air the palate develops some raw freshly sliced butchers' bacon and some rose petals. Lovely acidity and resolved tannins. Fab.
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Sunday Night Free Corkage Night (Chez Bruce): No mistaking this for anything other than cornas. Somewhat cloudy - a nose of blood and iron. Some discussion about citrus fruit - not sure I fully got it, but definitely a hint of grapefruit, real piercing acidity though with redcurrant and rosehip. High toned but not shrill at this stage. A real treat - we decided to drink these reds sequentially rather than side by side and I think that was the right choice.
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The wine had dropped a lot of sediment (much more than the last few bottles I have had) and this is really ready now. Archetypal Northern Rhone Syrah nose in the tertiary phase combining red fruits with meaty/leather aromas. Fairly limpid in the glass and very sweet fruit on the palate. The tannins had softened but velvet now rather than ripe sweet fresh tannins. Excellent length. Not quite up there with the La Las but not too far away.
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A lovely mature bottle of Cornas with weight combined with a refinement more reminiscent of Côte Rôtie. At first the nose showed an element of fine cedar within its fragrant cherry and grilled meat infused fruit but later on the cedar receded. The palate was medium+ bodied, velvety textured with fragrant fruit, minerals, forest floor and fresh acidity seamlessly integrated. Finish still had some ripe tannic suport and was quite long. Excellent.
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7/2/2023 - Vinumming & Ahhing Likes this wine: 92 Points
A Mid-Summer Sunday Supper in Wandsworth (Chez Bruce): Blood, iron, redcurrants and few pipette drops of grapefruit juice. With air a little rosehip too.. Palate very savoury and more-ish. With some air the palate develops some raw freshly sliced butchers' bacon and some rose petals. Lovely acidity and resolved tannins. Fab.
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7/2/2023 - lozatron Likes this wine:
Sunday Night Free Corkage Night (Chez Bruce): No mistaking this for anything other than cornas. Somewhat cloudy - a nose of blood and iron. Some discussion about citrus fruit - not sure I fully got it, but definitely a hint of grapefruit, real piercing acidity though with redcurrant and rosehip. High toned but not shrill at this stage. A real treat - we decided to drink these reds sequentially rather than side by side and I think that was the right choice.
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8/7/2022 - wxch2002 Likes this wine: 96 Points
The wine had dropped a lot of sediment (much more than the last few bottles I have had) and this is really ready now. Archetypal Northern Rhone Syrah nose in the tertiary phase combining red fruits with meaty/leather aromas. Fairly limpid in the glass and very sweet fruit on the palate. The tannins had softened but velvet now rather than ripe sweet fresh tannins. Excellent length. Not quite up there with the La Las but not too far away.
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12/19/2019 - Wineloon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Quite feral, crunchy tart raspberry fruit
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5/26/2019 - eboracum Likes this wine: 93 Points
A lovely mature bottle of Cornas with weight combined with a refinement more reminiscent of Côte Rôtie. At first the nose showed an element of fine cedar within its fragrant cherry and grilled meat infused fruit but later on the cedar receded. The palate was medium+ bodied, velvety textured with fragrant fruit, minerals, forest floor and fresh acidity seamlessly integrated. Finish still had some ripe tannic suport and was quite long. Excellent.
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