Community Tasting Notes 32

• acyso wrote: 88 points

  March 12, 2023 - March Rhônes (Chicago, IL): Get to finally taste what is a glaring hole in my tasting experiences with Clape. Of course, this is the worst vintage in recent memory, so expectations were tempered. At the end of the day, this drinks like a Cotes-du-Rhone. It's on its last legs (which you would expect for a 20-year-old wine). Thin, but not weedy, this is just a wine that is truly a product of the vintage, and frankly I kind of respect it. Is it a great wine? No. But it was definitely worthy of attention all the same.

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• peolsf wrote: 91 points

  November 25, 2022 - I tasted this right after the 2001, which presented as much tawnier in the glass. Here we have a redder hue, still with medium legs. The palate still has so much elegant fruit structure (more than the '01) with redcurrant layered on the darker berry, a kick of balsamic or something tart. Fantastic. Decanted for about 1-2 hours.

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• dream wrote: 88 points

  July 29, 2022 - This was served to us blind and I could not smell or taste any indications of a Northern Rhone even after I knew what it was. It's a lovely, balanced, light-bodied red with a fine, complex finish but without the perfume, baconfat, smoky notes, etc. of a Northern Rhone, why bother? Very much fully mature and perhaps the Rhone notes have just faded away...
  At Chambers St, NYC.

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• Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 points

  May 19, 2022 - Dinner at Epure (cafe EPURE, Shop 403, inside Epure, Level 4, Ocean Centre, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong): A first experience with this wine for me. Totally fathomless black-red colour. A massive wave of black/red bramble but rich fruit hits you immediately on the nose. A floral perfume element emerges overlaying the more expected white pepper etc. Palate is immediately deep, profound plummy, but with a lot of unresolved tannic structure. I would have thought this a 2012 if drank blind. Amazing new experience, especially with dry- aged, Galician grass fed rib-eye steak. Needs another 10 years to fully unfurl. 92+ easy for now. Thanks, Jeremy!

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• Jaber wrote: 90 points

  December 4, 2017 - Nice bottle. Opened one hour before tasting. Nice cherry and balsamic tones on the nose. Red currant jam, cigar on the mouth, medium- long finish. Well done.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• 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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• Consumed 161 (49%)

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