Community Tasting Notes 21

• CarpeDiem! Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 29, 2022 - Expressive, well structured wine “of the south”. Intense nose of wild berries, chocolate, liquorice, menthol, port. Full bodied in the mouth, mature cassis, cherry, plum, cassis, raisin, chocolate, with a powerful phenolic, finish. Excellent and beating a Clos des Papes by several lengths.

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• owr Does not like this wine: 84 points

  May 23, 2021 - Leather, plum and smoke / Licorice and baked fruit / Spiced-plum and mocha
  Alcohol seems to be quite prevalent, there's plenty of heat here - tertiary characters are all over this one - really has a disappointing character as it opens; fruit has totally disappeared moving to forest floor with earthy-smoky and fig ... This is a real disappointing wine.

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• CK67 Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 27, 2021 - Drinking at peak. Decanted for 1 hour. Don’t think this will hold up that much longer.

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• OttawaB Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 3, 2020 - A structured powerful inky thick wine. Big aromas of dark pruny berries (dark berries but bordering pruny like an amarone). Black pepper, beef, iodine. Portends to a very big "Shiraz" style. Good herbal almost menthol nature with garrigue as well. Complex big nose. But not an overpowering room-filling nose.
  Flavours .... pruny stewed dark berries and plums, cherry liquor. Raisined like an amarone only without the fruit "sweetness". More bitterness mixed in. Garrigue, black pepper, big filling wine. Still has that dryness, dusty tannins still prevalent. Nice overall flavour depth and longish finish. A big wine, bordering over the top but somehow stops just short. Not quite my style but nice for a change.

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• dsimmons Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 22, 2020 - My last of three and clearly the best bottle. Fruit is still big but more integrated and balanced than earlier bottles. I would be drinking these.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Château de l'Ou
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation Secret de Schistes
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Languedoc Roussillon
• SubRegion Roussillon
• Appellation Côtes Catalanes
• UPC Codes 3760237111807, 3760237112019

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• In Cellars 64 (29%)
• Consumed 154 (71%)

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