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• klezman Likes this wine:

  August 11, 2012 - On PnP, relatively muted aroma, the main thing that comes across is stone and earth. Maybe a little red berry. Colour is a nice deep purple/red. Initial flavours of raspberry, moderate tannin, and a ton of minerality, almost to the point of feeling like licking limestone.
  
  After a while (about half an hour) the wine starts to integrate a bit and the fruit comes out - tart cherry, I think. Still not a major part of the wine, but it's getting better. Surprisingly viscous. A touch of eucalyptus is also showing now. After a while longer, it's developed a sort of perfume. I'd get more of this to see how it evolves.

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• Keith Levenberg wrote: 89 points

  November 22, 2011 - From vines planted in 2000, per the back label. In a lot of ways this tastes more like cabernet franc than malbec, and probably structured more like a Loire cab franc too. It gets a lot of its structure from its tense acidic spine though after a little bit the tannic muscle becomes more obvious. It's got a juicy drinkability to it, a real thirst-quencher, but the aromas are already tertiary and savory.

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• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine de la Charmoise
• Varietal Côt
• Designation Vinifera Non Greffées
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Touraine
• Appellation Touraine

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• Consumed 2 (29%)

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