Community Tasting Note

• P A Montese wrote: 90 points

  December 29, 2013 - Never a disappointment with Cuvee Sabrine. I've drunk nine vintages in the last eleven years and it has proven to be one of the best values around for complex, age-worthy, dead-on-rustic-styled "Chateauneuf du Rhone". An 04 I drank a year ago was showing brilliantly. Pipe smoke and sage overlay a complexity of dark red fruit on the nose. A little angularity to the tannins, but plenty of incense-tinged, medium-weight lusciousness makes for fine early drinking. Fates willing, I shall drink one a year for the next five years, and watch this lovely 2010 fully bloom.

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• Motz commented:

  12/29/13, 10:47 PM - Wish I had a few more of these. A massive wine and an exceptional value. It drinks better than many CdPs!

• P A Montese commented:

  1/10/14, 6:07 PM - Right? Such over-achievers from Brunel. I'm just gearing up to write about a 2001 Brunel Rasteau "Les Sambiches", which I polished off minutes ago.

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