2003 Marc Sorrel Hermitage

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  5/28/2023 - Amberissey Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Cherry, charred beef, and dark flower petals on the nose. Really savoury on the palette. Reminds me of beef rib or shin ragu, tomato but in the context of the ragu. Really tasty

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  5/26/2023 - paintinginacave wrote: 90 Points

  Stood up for two weeks. Ullage in the top neck. Decanted for an hour. A medium ruby core fading to a deep garnet outer edge. Incredible intensity of Maraschino cherries, coupled with dried, almost dusty herbs, a touch of campfire smoke, and braised beef. A weightless wine that expertly integrates the high alcohol of the 2003 vintage.

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  1/14/2023 - Aravind Asok wrote:

  Decanted. Tasted maderized at pour, but I was worried it was the adhacent wines. I poured it back in the bottle, brought it home and waited. I expected this would be oxidized, but it tastes how I remember my last btl tasted. Roasted red and black fruit, game, loads of liqueur. Not my favorite vintage, but not bad. Drink up, it's not going to improve.

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  12/26/2020 - Loathesome Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Young red colour and still a bit of early tannin that will take five years to dissipate. Despite 15% and a very hot year the acidity and thus balance was outstanding and makes it well balanced and all enveloping. The only complaint would be that it is a bit one dimensional and clean. Maybe it will take on further interest and the acidity should help this but whether there is enough body and fruit i am not sure.

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  12/15/2019 - Aravind Asok wrote:

  Much better cork. Definitely taste the heat of the vintage, but this is still a very nice wine. On the.nose: black cherry liqueur, dried herbs, roasted olives, black raspberry. On the palate, good acidity, a medicinal note, black raspberry, cassis...soft tannin, some heat and a medicinal herbal bitterness. Good, but roasted.
  
  Day 2: Good, but hides its heat less well today. Too roasted/hot now.

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