Community Tasting Note

• Eric Guido Likes this wine: 97 points

  May 7, 2018 - What an amazing bouquet, seductive from the onset, showing a mix of ripe blackberry, black raspberry, crushed violet candies, lavender, stone dust and a hint of animal muskiness. On the palate, textures like liquid silk wrapped around the senses as a display of remarkably fresh yet saturating red and black berry fruit seemed to hover, dispersing violet florals, licorice, minerals and hints of grippy herbal tea-like tannin across all that they touched. Balanced to the core, with brisk acidity making light of the wines amazing textural depth and resulting in a finish that was both impossibly long, amazing fresh, yet structured all the same. I can still taste the purple inner floral and dark fruit tones, having lost track of how long the finish has been going. It’s hard to fault the 2015 Gourt de Mautens for anything, and incredibly easy to become lost in it.

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• KJD45$ commented:

  12/13/20, 5:28 PM - Eric
  Thoughts on the alcohol prescense?

• Eric Guido commented:

  12/28/20, 7:21 AM - It's been a while since I tasted this but at the time it didn't stick out. Typically I try to mention it when it does. I did pass on the 2016 vintage because it was just TOO big.

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