Community Tasting Notes 49

• egoya Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 8, 2024 - Fully mature, medium bodied, hedonistic - a big positive surprise!

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• Jmph Likes this wine: 88 points

  March 3, 2024 - 88 initial taste. Cork was dry and broke.

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• pinkhouse wrote: 86 points

  February 27, 2024 - A bit heavy and flavors of stewed plums. Not what I had anticipated. Perhaps an off bottle.

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• Golf_Wine Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 2, 2024 - Bought at a visit at the vinyard around the release time. Clean red wine. After 1.5 hours. Nose is beautiful, almost Margaux like, floral, purple and white lilies, pinesap, almond paste, Marciano cherries, blue ripe fruits, new leather a very pleasant nose. Nose alone puts it in a higher category of wine. Nose of a $100+ Bordeaux. Had it with black garlic risotto and butter pan fried chanterelle and pan seared filet mignon, butter and rosemary, and it all was amazing. I read some reviews talking about very tannic etc. To me not at all. I wonder if those reviewers had it with some spicy food food which Merlot just can't handle, it turns into a bitter wine with spicy food. This wine is just entering its drinking window to me. We balanced while still drinks young. Drinking red fruits and berries, blue fruits, blackberries, some tannins on the backend and with a rather long finish where I get a bit of oak but just enough to give the wine some weight, some alcohol. Slightest bitterness on the gums on the long finish when I swish the wine around . It drinks like a balanced young wine. A very good value wine.

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• ChristoBretts Likes this wine: 89 points

  May 3, 2023 - Opened and let sit for two hours, recorked and drank over three days. Some black fruit on the nose, but mostly closed. Jammy on the palate along with lively tannin, no secondary development at this stage. Drinkable now, will likely pick up a point or so in two plus years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Château de la Dauphine
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation Fronsac
• UPC Codes 000004499770, 3700188038020, 3700188041037, 3760106165320, 3760175165320, 714153212257

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• In Cellars 707 (60%)
• Consumed 465 (40%)

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