2007 Domaine les Aphillanthes Côtes du Rhône Villages Le Cros

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  4/15/2019 - Mossrose wrote: 89 Points

  Opaque black with an inch pour. Delightful raspberry and blueberry nose. The sip is lush, rich, and both mouth filling and coating. Vivid acidity and excellent structuring tannin, The swallow is concentrated, long, and mouth coating. A superb all Syrah wine that is competitive with Northern Rhone Syrahs, here from an isolated high altitude steep hillside vineyard that is unfortunately located outside the more famous appellations, that can be sold as only as a Cotes du Rhone Village. Overall, another superb 2007 that undermines numerous marketing claims about how great later vintages are.

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  12/13/2012 - AlbertaOenologist Likes this wine: 91 Points

  notes of blackberry (cassis), firm tannins, very well balanced.
  violet notes in finish
  -an excellent ffod wine; paired well with grilled lamb.

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  5/29/2012 - cmr Likes this wine: 89 Points

  I still liked it a lot but this bottle seemed a little disjointed and not so well integrated.

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  12/29/2011 - graphite wrote: 90 Points

  Complex nose of machine oil, smoked meat, garrigue, and bramble fruits. In the mouth shows sweet blackberry and mulberry fruit with a concentration approaching New World. Will last a few more years, but I think it is best drunk sooner than later.

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  8/30/2011 - hcoop wrote: 91 Points

  New world style but with old world hints. Gerat with Lamb.

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