Community Tasting Note

• Beaunedoc Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 26, 2024 - The nose began with the smell of cooking bacon, black olive and garrigue. The palate was decidedly black fruit driven with blackberry and black raspberry tones present. There was a lively acidity and pleasant tannic structure. With time an element of forest undergrowth developed, almost Burgundian in nature. Add in some dried fine herbs of Provence, and this is one delightful bottle of wine. I would say that the non grenache varietals play on outsized role in the character of this wine. According to K&L’s write up, it has 10% of syrah, 10% mouvedre, and 5% cinsault. I think it is ready, and no decay was noted. The rim is certainly lightening.
  
  Doing some more research on this wine, I found an opinion from J. Livingstone-Learmonth regarding 2014 vintage. He found the wines reminiscent of CNdP’s from the 1960’s. Having cut my wine teeth on wines of these vintages and of the 1970’s, I surely agree. This wine is agile and complex, not overpowering, heavily extracted or ponderous. He noted his disapproval of the direction of these wines in the 1990’s and 2000’s. I agree again.

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• Neecies commented:

  2/26/24, 11:10 AM - I own this wine but have been a little nervous about opening a bottle. In January of 2020 a bunch of friends gathered 12 vintages dating back to 1990 for a vertical tasting (2017 was the youngest). There was a distinct difference--one that we didn't care for--between the pre-Cambie wines and the ones that followed. '14 was a vintage we didn't taste--you give me hope, especially using words like 'agile and complex' and 'not...ponderous', descriptions more suited to the older wines than the newer ones we had that night. Guess it's time to try one! Thanks for the detailed note.

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