Community Tasting Note
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Champagneinhand Does not like this wine: 82 points
May 17, 2014 - Either this has gone dormant, as the lovely Grenache fruit is very unbalanced with the acids and tannin, which I suspect is the case... Hold 5 more years for reintegration, or drink up very quickly as it is a pleasant enough wine in the first 45 minutes. One reason I don't like holding inexpensive all Grenache wines. It may see better days, but most likely was intended for consumption last year or prior. I really enjoyed my other 2 bottles that I consumed fairly early. Grenache seems to let me down when holding it over the long term. I don't want garrigue to be the main theme of flavors along with alcohol and some muddled fruit. I could find plenty of liqueurs that do that better. Still a winemaker signed bottle so in the 80s for shear good memories.
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2 Comments
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pm3moore commented:
2/8/15, 8:49 PM - reviewer was wrong about the grape variety.
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Champagneinhand commented:
2/8/15, 9:19 PM - Canonau is Grenache Noir. It's just called by a different name in Sardinian/Italian but same varietal as Grenache in France or Garnacha in Spain. The winemaker was at the store/seminar I attended and even signed the bottle. Anthony Bourdain's wife is Sardinian and they may reference the wine in the Sardinia episode of No Reservations.