Community Tasting Notes 11

• Nutty08 wrote:

  January 27, 2024 - Early sample. Quite fresh, focus, not a lot of depth. Beautiful color.

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• cos65 Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 27, 2024 - Bright salmon pink
  Ripe light strawberry
  Nice acidity, but finishes sort of one note.

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• jkscully Likes this wine:

  June 28, 2020 - The color is remarkable: bright stransparent ruby. Looks more like a light red wine than a Rose wine. The palate is distinctive: cotton candy with cinnamon at first, but also Ranier cherries, strawberries, raspberries, cola, garrigue, and burnt orange peel on the finish. At points it reminded me of a whiskey cocktail—something like an Old fashioned. I enjoyed it very much, but in the back of my mind, I couldn’t help but wonder if I would have found a $15 Lambrusco to be just as good and if I woul have felt so positively about this wine if I had been told this was a $15 Lambrusco instead of a $50 Rose from Palette? I will say that it got quite a bit better with air—it continued to gain complexity for a solid two or three hours, so the decanting time really helps and I suspect some additional bottle age would have helped too. Many people on CT say that the 2014 was an off vintage for this wine. It’s my first taste of the wine and I’m intrigued enough that I would like to try more and see what the wine tastes like with extended aeration, futher agining, and a different vintage. Good match with Pork chops marinated in teriyaki with Gateway to the North Seasoning.

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• bps2266 wrote:

  August 24, 2019 - improved tremendously since i tasted it 2 years ago. nose open for business with beguiling garrigue to go with nice berry and mineral notes. body is rounded out, medium weight, and medium acidity. well balanced and easy to drink. deep flavors with strawberry, raspberry, flint, cinnamon, and dried herb. long finish. should still improve with another 2-3 years.

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• GDa202 wrote: 87 points

  April 14, 2018 - Very tricky. Slight strawberry nose. Colour of a pale red Burgundy. Wonderful fruity flavours: strawberry, raspberry and rhubarb - with a little of the tannin of the latter. Slightly spicy notes of cinnamon, maybe some sage. But almost fatally undermined by the fizzy side, commented upon by others; a second fermentation - maybe bottled too soon? So I am stuck between thinking this is a lovely complex rosé vs. thinking it is a framboise kir royale or a Lambrusco. Challenging!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type Rosé
• Producer Château Simone
• Varietal Rosé Blend
• Designation Rosé
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Provence
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Palette
• UPC Codes 3760173370023, 811644011471

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• In Cellars 100 (33%)
• Consumed 200 (67%)

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