Community Tasting Note

• thelinebreak Likes this wine: 89 points

  April 17, 2011 - First of all, it’s number 85 on The Wine Spectator Top 100 list for 2010, if that really means anything. Anyway.
  
  It is 60% Syrah, 30% Grenache, and 10% Mourvedre, which meets the requirements of the Pic Saint-Loup appellation.
  
  Held up to the wet sunset sky where snow (big, fat snow flakes of snow) had been falling much of the afternoon and early evening, the color of this wine is bright purple. It looks vibrant and happy.
  
  The nose is delicious. Vanilla and and and, ah, it’s like vanilla cream. After a couple of swirls, new smells arise: cranberry and pepper. There might be cherry, too. And I pick up some truffle oil. Truffle oil. That’s what is making me happy inside. Truffle oil. Truffle oil is always happiness to the body. I smell it and all sorrows go away.
  
  To the taste.
  
  This is pleasant up front with cranberries and plum. The body is cool and deep. The Mourvedre is making for a tart finish, or a high acidic finish. The tartness while mild endures on the finish.
  
  This is an enjoyable wine, but it needs some food to cut the tart finish.
  
  This would go good with eggs. Eggs, toast, hash browns, and ketchup. This would be a good breakfast wine. Though, who has wine for breakfast? Hmm. Maybe I should go to the Brockport Diner.
  
  I say this is a B+ wine. It could probably benefit from a few more years so the acidity can mellow a bit.
  
  For a more detailed review: http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/in-pursuit-of-the-juiciest-wine-day-ninety-chateau-de-lascaux-coteaux-du-languedoc-2008/

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