2006 Château Camplazens Coteaux du Languedoc La Clape La Réserve

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  12/31/2016 - Aplaidlad Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Note covers various tasting over 1hr decant
  Colour: matte brick/russet, the opacity is reminiscent of blood. Clings to the glass. A nice wine to look at.
  
  Nose: slow to open up, but rewards with big chocolate notes - you can almost taste it just by smelling. Dark fruit like plum, black cherry, and dried figs. Blueberry syrup. There's a light, red-fruit component as well, with strawberry and raspberry cutting the deep and meaty smells
  
  Palate: impressively robust and complex. Dark flavours up front, with leather, anise, black cherry, and oak as the key players. A racy acidity parches the palate in the background, as does a moderate tannin that fades evenly with the other flavors. Well balanced, but needs a great deal of time to open up.

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  9/23/2014 - NiklasW wrote: 89 Points

  Decanted for an hour. Uuh, this is a biiig wine, lots of blackberries and plum with a strong meaty component to it as well as a bit of garrigue on the nose. On the palate, tons of dark fruits, lots of tannins, but also with good acidity and not sweet at all, making this a well-structured but huge wine. You can feel the searing heat on the La Clape massif bursting out of the glass, ahh the memories of going around the wineries there 5 years ago in a small old Peugeot without air conditioning come so clearly to mind.

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  2/12/2010 - NiklasW wrote: 89 Points

  Languedoc tasting (at home): Heavy notes of mocha, dark chocolate and very strong meaty component with airtime. A power wine. Very Syrah, very good!

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  7/7/2009 - NiklasW wrote:

  Visit to La Clape (Narbonne, Languedoc); 7/7/2009-7/9/2009: Tasted at the winery before buying. Nicely expressive on the nose, with licorice and black fruits coming through. Quite a bit of tannins, a quite a plush wine, with the Grenache pushing through. Good!

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