Community Tasting Notes 60

• Grinner wrote: 92 points

  March 16, 2024 - DAMN WiNOS: Dune 2 (Rye Restaurant, Eugene): Opened for a hour before pouring, this had a nice mix of fruit and savory notes. Ripe black cherry, black raspberry, fig jam and then the leather, spice and kelp show up. Still has 5 years.

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• Vancouver Likes this wine: 85 points

  March 16, 2024 - This is the "les Deux Chenes" cuvee 2010.
  
  I have tasted many wines from this estate including a number of the 2010 cuvees which have all been great. This bottle was purchased on release and was stored perfectly thereafter.
  
  Unfortunately this bottle was in a weird dumb phase- very little aromatic development and not showing much on the palate.
  
  Still drinkable, but just barely.
  
  This things happen so will chalk it up to bad bottle....

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• grafstrb wrote:

  November 19, 2023 - -- decanted one hour before initial taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over 1.5 to 1.75 hrs. --
  
  NOSE: "dark"; oil slicks; tar; cherry Twizzlers; expressive.
  
  BODY: violet-garnet color of great depth; perfect cork; medium-full to full bodied.
  
  TASTE: smoked pepperoni sticks; creosote; smoky rubber; "dark"; reminiscent of a Cayuse Syrah, but without the olives; dark, earthy and bitter. Gut impression score: medium-high 80s. Drink Now and over the near term.

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• Neecies Does not like this wine:

  March 6, 2023 - Not decanted. First pour out of the bottle: kirsch-like alcohol, unpleasant sediment particles in every sip. [Pause to do a double-take at the label--15%!!!] So we poured the wine thru unbleached coffee filters to clean up the particulate and then gently added water, about three tablespoons in all, which freshened up the fruit and smoothed out the alcohol. At this point modestly enjoyable with our taco dinner, but without intervention no way could we have drunk this.

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• john_s Likes this wine:

  February 6, 2023 - Similar to my last bottle. 16% alcohol according to the back label, but the wine carries it remarkably well. There's none of the "kirsch" flavour that I dislike. Still quite young colour. I have a few more, but will drink them within a few years in case the alcohol outlasts everything else. Still some (good) tannin, not too much.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Mas de Boislauzon
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• UPC Code 785255003098

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• Pending Delivery 36 (3%)
• In Cellars 670 (49%)
• Consumed 672 (49%)

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