Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2009 Doluca Cabernet Sauvignon SarafinThrace more |
8/19/2015 - SmoothPalate wrote: 90 pointsDark red with good vibrancy. A bold and ripe nose, as expected. On Day 1 it was very fruity with ripe dark berries and a spicy frame. On Day 2 it improved and showed more complexity, more spiciness mingling with the fruit, and tones of undergrowth and roasted coffee. The oak is perfectly integrated in the wine. On the palate, this is full-bodied, fruity and spicy with a prune-like tendency, good presence on the mid-palate and a medium finish. Excellent balance and fine tannins. Ready now but definitely structured for another 5-7 years cellaring, this is a very good example of Turkish Cabernet Sauvignon. |
Red |
2004 Kavaklıdere Boğazkere PrestigeDiyarbakir more |
1/25/2014 - ericindc Likes this wine: 88 pointsFirst turkish wine... and first wine from the Bogazkere grape. This was really good. Simply amazing QPR at $4. Nicely mature with a nose of cocoa powder, black fruits, some light cedar and earth. Taste was straighforward but good with black fruits, earth, leather, strong minerality and softened tannins. I suspect this was monolithic when new but age really softened it.
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Red |
2009 Concha y Toro Merlot Marqués de Casa ConchaPeumo more |
8/26/2012 - SmoothPalate wrote: 86 pointsVery dark crimson colour. Nose is dominated by coffee and vanilla tones; there is dark, plummy fruit underneath, not yet fully emerging to the surface. Palate is almost full bodied and is well balanced; it also has that New World type of sweetness that I am not a big fan of. Good length. Well made wine, tastes good, but it is just so predictable and lacks originality. Almost like drinking perfume.
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Comment posted by SmoothPalate:
8/19/2015 2:23:00 PM - I purchased it in Turkey in early 2012 for what was (then) the equivalent of $21. Probably that was a discounted price. More recent vintages of the same wine are selling for about $22-26 in Turkey today.