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2011 Château Pavie Macquin St. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend

1/23/2014 - yofog wrote:

60 points

This is shiraz, and piss poor, disjointed shiraz at that. Tastes really hot, overworked, extracted, lacking any semblance of focus.

Mr Squiggles commented:

1/24/14, 7:51 AM - Dude. Have you reviewed to right wine? Pavie Macquin, St Emillon? Of course its a terrible shiraz because in Bordeaux they grow cabernet and merlot. Maybe assess it on that basis.

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2008 Mas Martinet Priorat Martinet Bru Red Blend

12/31/2013 - Not647f wrote:

So the second bottle wasn't quite as good as the first, but it was still good. I detected more heat from the alcohol, more dominance from the syrah. Syrah in Priorat, to my thinking, is less interesting than garnacha from Priorat, but garnacha is not long lived, so it's not surprising that this wine is heading that direction. Still a pretty delicious mouthful of dusty cocoa and bright red fruit. Tempting to buy another couple and see if this was fading or just bottle variation.

Mr Squiggles commented:

1/8/14, 4:50 AM - A good tasting note. I very much agree with you on the heat of the wine coming, in part, from the alcohol, and am intrigued by your thoughts on Priorat syrah & garnacha. One to investigate.

And as for the wine, I think it offers great quality for the modest cost.

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White - Sparkling

2004 Moët & Chandon Champagne Grand Vintage Champagne Blend

11/1/2013 - Mr Squiggles Does not like this wine:

79 points

Served in an overlong flute, this was an austere teardrop of bone white chill. It has been suggested the blend is almost 40% chardonnay, which I can believe as all I could taste on the first mouthful was lemon and the frost in my frontal lobe.

The big marques make champagne for the globalised world: inoffensive, mass-marketable, in Duty Free everywhere. And this, despite being a vintage year, fulfilled the criteria. Even after the glass warmed I was hard pressed to identify much more than some mean apple and unripe pear. And the chardonnay, of course. Plenty of that.

But in a way, it was the perfect aperitif. It cleansed, stripped, neutralised the ground for the meal to come.

Mr Squiggles commented:

11/6/13, 6:58 AM - Thank you for your thoughtful comment, Champagneinhand. I think you may have hit upon a very relevant point namely this champagne is still several years off its prime drinking potential. Tight and lemony indeed. The score arises from the CellarTracker Wine Rating Assistant where 70-79 marks a wine that is ‘below average to average’, and 80-85 is ‘good’. I couldn’t in all honesty put it in that higher category.
I do rail at my perception of the uniformity of Grande Marque houses (although I profess a weakness for a toasty Laurent Perrier Ultra Brut). For choice, the smaller houses of Joly and Devaux are more to my taste. I just find their champagnes more flavoursome, often with less weighting on the chardonnay and more creative use of meunier.

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