1999 Tardieu-Laurent Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  5/25/2016 - beatles wrote: 90 Points

  very nice, very straight forward, more local than other wines from here, this shows nice balance and underneath the modern treatment (smooth and creamy, oh, so smooth!), there is some garrigue and terroir to be found; while never my favorite, this wine has developed well. Ready, thought no signs of age, nothing gained by keeping it, methinks.

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  8/21/2014 - finewinebuff57 wrote: 87 Points

  Interesting looking through other notes on this wine. More Tardieu than Chateauneuf (or certainly modern CdP) but I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. I gave this bottle a decant and plenty of air, and let it develop over three days. Very mercurial and changed a fair amount, but at no stage defined or distinctive. Dumb nose sometimes delightfully expressive at others. Throughout though a rasher murky if full flavour. Others have remarked on a lack of fruit. I thought it was there, but rather subdued. More time perhaps? The colour would imply not and I don't see this improving.

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  10/11/2013 - Joelind wrote: 92 Points

  Very nice and soft. Thin to start with sme tobacco and leather coming through in increasingly.

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  9/26/2013 - emzee.mc wrote: 90 Points

  The wine surely demands attention with a whopping 14% abv. In the glass, it pours a musky red color with quite a bit of orange bricking and long legs. The alcohol is certainly potent on the nose with the alcohol coming to the fore before being followed by notes of red fruits, plums, peaches. There are remarkable end notes of wheat grass and aloe. On the palate, the wine is a definite fruit bomb with copious amounts of preserved plums, salted lemons and oak. Tannins are very well integrated and the texture is lush and luxuriant. The tingling from the alcohol is definitely there as if to remind the drinker of the robustness of the wine. Finish is medium. In honest opinion, this absolutely tastes more like a Right Banker (and one done almost exclusively with Merlot), than a CdP. Nevertheless, very strong wine and would most likely develop from the years to come.

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  1/18/2013 - Vintomas wrote: 90 Points

  Light to medium red, pale red edge. Nose with ripe red berries, a touch of beeswax and perhaps a hint of volatile acidity, some barnyard aromas. Developed and sweetish impression in the nose with oak in evidence. Medium+ body, ripe red berries and good concentration of fruit, some hint of its 14% of alcohol but it is well integrated in the generous fruit (and much less obvious than in many other CnPs), good acidity, softened tannins, some spice. Quite balanced on the palate. More-or-less fully developed but will keep for many more years.

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