Community Tasting Note

• isbjoern wrote: 87 points

  November 18, 2014 - Despite almost everyone loving this wine on CT, I have to say this is absolutely not my style of wine nor is it a classic Chateuneuf-du-Pape as I understand it. Blatantly sweet, stewed overripe fruit, candy like taste, cherry liqueur, smoke flavors, the alcohol way over the top of what I can bear. This is not a wine I would want to pair with food. Maybe one could pair this with a cigar on a cold winter evening. Not a wine style I can fully enjoy drinking. - 87 points

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• Capt Cutlass commented:

  11/19/14, 11:49 AM - Three cheers for isbjoern! I like a taster who calls it like he sees it and identifies alcohol as a key part of the balance in a wine. I don't care if there is 15% as long as it is balanced but if I can taste even 12.5% then something is wrong and as isbjoern correctly remarks why should an expensive wine get high scores from the cellartracker community if it is blatantly out of balance?? Based on this tasting note I think I am going to sell my only bottle rather than have an alcohol bomb experience. Thanks to your objective journalism!

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