Community Tasting Note

• JimHow wrote: 89 points

  July 29, 2010 - Well this little lady has settled down from her early wild days. You know how His Majesty Robert M. Parker, Jr., rated this wine 89-92 points? Well, it's an 89-pointer. Cap de Faugeres is actually *two* wines: There is the wine at age 2-3, recently released from bottle-- jammy, tar, alcoholic, walking the tightrope between respectability and pornography and, in the end, somehow avoiding a fall to the unforgiving concrete below. Then there is this wine: Evolving (or devolving(?)) into a somewhat pedantic, flaccid, unexciting effort. I'm not inclined to rate it lower, though, for one simple reason.... Duh, just drink it young! This is a fun and enjoyable wine to drink in its first five years after it hits the shelves. It doesn't benefit from aging. That doesn't mean it is a *bad* wine. It is what it is. Enjoy it for what it is. After my first experience with this property, from the 2005 vintage, I'm planning on buying 6-12 bottles from 2009... and I'll drink every one of them before they are five years old.

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• amateurwino commented:

  8/4/10, 11:02 AM - Nice note. For what it's worth, I've been drinking some of the 2000 Cap de Faugeres in the last year, and it's showing well - decidedly less New World in feel than the 2005 - with more earth/minerality showing. If that's not your cup of tea, you might do well drink up as you mentioned... but I think this wine at least has ageability to the ten-year mark - it might be in a weird phase now but I wouldn't necessarily give up completely. Maybe hold one for a ten-year-mark experiment?

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