No formal note - but this was on form today with lovely, perfumed, blackberry and blackcurrant fruit, vanilla, hints of black pepper. Medium bodied on the palate, with soft, luxuriant tannins, good depth of fruit, nice contrasting fresh acidity and a good length, harmonious finish. Very good indeed and may still improve if it develops a touch mroe complexity and interest of flavour.
No formal note. Pure, deep blackcurrant fruit on the nose with a touch of gravelly mineral. Much stricter and firmer on the palate than the Ogier, with firm tannins, but good depth of covering blackcurrant fuirt, some welcome earthy and mineral complexity and good acidity on the good length finish. Refreshing, upright, classic claret - still on the way up.
Not the same intensity and purity of fruit on the nose as the previous two wines, with bilberry fruit, earth and hints of game and the farm. This is full bodied, but only of medium depth on the palate, with meaty bilberry fruit on the mid-palate giving way to some still quite firm tannins on the medium/good length finish. However it retains sufficient acidity to be reasonably balanced overall. Interesting and pretty good, but patently lacking the depth and class of the previous two wines. As per my last note lacks the depth of fruit for the very long-term. Now to 2015ish.
2004 Michel & Stéphane Ogier Côte-Rôtie 89 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie
No formal note - but this was on form today with lovely, perfumed, blackberry and blackcurrant fruit, vanilla, hints of black pepper. Medium bodied on the palate, with soft, luxuriant tannins, good depth of fruit, nice contrasting fresh acidity and a good length, harmonious finish. Very good indeed and may still improve if it develops a touch mroe complexity and interest of flavour.
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2002 Château Rauzan-Ségla 90 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux
No formal note. Pure, deep blackcurrant fruit on the nose with a touch of gravelly mineral. Much stricter and firmer on the palate than the Ogier, with firm tannins, but good depth of covering blackcurrant fuirt, some welcome earthy and mineral complexity and good acidity on the good length finish. Refreshing, upright, classic claret - still on the way up.
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2005 Domaine Tempier Bandol 85 Points
France, Provence, Bandol
Not the same intensity and purity of fruit on the nose as the previous two wines, with bilberry fruit, earth and hints of game and the farm. This is full bodied, but only of medium depth on the palate, with meaty bilberry fruit on the mid-palate giving way to some still quite firm tannins on the medium/good length finish. However it retains sufficient acidity to be reasonably balanced overall. Interesting and pretty good, but patently lacking the depth and class of the previous two wines. As per my last note lacks the depth of fruit for the very long-term. Now to 2015ish.
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