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• Stefanos T. wrote: 90 points

  July 22, 2011 - The wine is obviously not ready to drink now, although I did not have the chance to see how it would evolve had it been decanted. Initially I was shocked and experienced an anti-climax as I was expecting too much from this wine and the wine was far from perfect. For starters nose, although endowed with deep fruit, had an unappetizing green geranium note. A friend said it reminded him of rancid watermelon and it sure rang a bell. The big shock was to come from the palate though: the wine had CO2 as if it had refermented in the bottle. I am disappointed and I hope the wine will get better, as I have two more bottles. The fruit was ripe to point of being overripe and jammy, and this is something that the best CdP ought to avoid. On the other hand it has a massive structure which hints at a long ageing potential and an interesting aromatic complexity beyond the deep fruit aromas I already mentioned, and was mainly herbal (thyme, garrigue, sage). Difficult to score such a wine. Yet despite the 'faults', less than 90 points I cannot give.

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