Community Tasting Notes 19

• acyso wrote: 90 points

  March 17, 2024 - Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): I had higher expectations for this, but I think the bottle just wasn't in too great a shape. A bit dirty and almost slightly brothy. Earthy and leathery and rustic, the way Clape tends to be. Reminds me a little bit of Cordier-era Bordeaux in that dirty/funky way.

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• Peech Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 17, 2023 - en magnum - opened and not decanted just 1 hour before serving. This was sooooo beautiful, sooooo fragrant, with lots of bacon fat, smoke, grilled meats, some leather, and plums. Suddenly there was a whiff of dusty chalk but thankfully this faded. Plateaued about 1½ hours after opening, but remained lovely with lots of eucalyptus. Some 3 hours after opening there were some black olives, with less sweet fruit and more smoke.

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• acyso wrote: flawed

  November 10, 2022 - "The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Chicago, IL): Oxidized.

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• lozatron Likes this wine:

  December 10, 2021 - Most Splendid Game Dinner: Such a treat. Starts of with just a hint of - farmyard after the cattle have come in. Low level brett perhaps - just enough to keep it interesting. Really thrilling core to the wine, but fully in balance - the horses are only pulling as hard as you want them to.

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• NickA Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 9, 2021 - Gareth's glorious game dinner (Canary Wharf): A real Cornas caricature: blood and iron, coffee bean, even smelling of shit at times. Good acidity, and plenty of zip and complexity, but not necessarily delicious (perhaps the more hedonistic Chave overshadowed it).

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1983
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Auguste Clape
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Cornas

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• In Cellars 63 (50%)
• Consumed 62 (50%)

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