Community Tasting Note

• Tenuta Stefan wrote: 95 points

  July 3, 2012 - I was surprised here ... in a good way. Usually Mounir and Rotem use oak in a way I find difficult, i.e. too much new oak that put the fruit in the shadow. But lately I've tried some of their wines from 2007 - 2009 that puts a smile on my face ... and this wine is one of them. In this wine the fruit gets the chance to shine. Nice, lovely dark fruit, strawberries, roses, black tea, spices and ... of course, oak ... but in a good way that supports the spices.
  I find this wine in balance and the oak-barrels are in harmony with the fruit and acidity. This wine is dark and powerfull in style ... but still with some elegance and finess. Words I seldom use in the same sentence with Lucien Le Moine. But "the Monk" is on the right track now. Respect to Mounir and Rotem! I will look for this wine again.

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• pclin commented:

  7/20/14, 12:16 AM - I have the wine twice so far and I am in complete agreement with your assessment. Great wine. Interestingly I found the 10' CSD not as good as 09' vintage.

• Tenuta Stefan commented:

  7/20/14, 12:54 AM - I haven't tried the 2010 of this CSD yet. Usually I like 2010 better, but the style of Le Moine and their use of oak needs generous fruit á la 2009 I think. Would be fun to try 2009 and 2010 side by side.

• pclin commented:

  7/20/14, 1:03 AM - or could it be the 10' CSD come from different plots of land vs 09' CSD?
  
  btw, just saw your profile of dream wine in 59' DRC RC, I did taste the wine once in 98', better than 78' DRC RC but outshined by 47' Cheval Blanc that night but better than 61', 82' Latour and 59' Lafite though.

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