• mdvino63 Likes this wine: 92 points

    January 25, 2021 - Best showing, yet. Bottle purchased on release and stored professionally and in controlled home cellar; in pristine condition. Clear, deep garnet with hint of bricking at edge. Savory and red berry fruit. Actually, my last note from 2017 rings true, but this bottle, today, has better palate intensity, especially in mid-palate compared to prior bottles. Bonnie loves it, too. Terrific.

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  • mdvino63 Likes this wine: 90 points

    January 1, 2017 - huge, vibrant nose savory and fruity. No cork taint here, thankfully, unlike my last 2 years ago. Very syrah. Palate not as intense. Excellent, though palate intensity not same as nose. Meaty. Other notes ring true. Solid 90-92..

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  • mdvino63 wrote: flawed

    January 1, 2015 - Slightly corked. Bummer. Still deep ruby. Good, fresh fruit underneath cork nose. Still some tannin. Not bad on palate, though can't get full sense.

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  • Chomsky wrote:

    October 31, 2013 - Another very fine bottle of this. Still youthfully tannic but with air it opened up nicely. The nose was just lovely, evolving from peat- and truffle-inflected ripe fruit to more smoky and mineral/earth aromas. The palate never quite caught up to the nose, but I still grooved on it.

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  • french16 wrote:

    July 17, 2013 - Not as focused and pure as the last bottle but still very enjoyable. Old cedar notes on the nose with blackberry and ink notes. Some herbs as well. The fruit is ripe but not jammy at all as there's actually a nice sensation of freshness and austerity.
    It really got better after 2 days when it had time to breath (unlike the previous bottle which showed well right away).

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  • french16 wrote:

    February 1, 2013 - What a great wine. Corked was soaked pretty much all the way up but the level was very good. Started with old cedary notes with a touch of greeness which blew off after 15mn to reveal nice fruit, ripe raspberry intermixed with some blue fruit. There's very cool savory and meaty notes (also on the palate). The nose is somehow more elegant than the palate which shows more power. But the finish is very focused, maybe a touch austere (and this is not a bad thing at all), compared to the palate, with a nice tobacco note.
    Very difficult to believe the wine is 22 years old both color and taste wise. This was another example from Marlene Soria that you can make beautiful, balanced syrah in the Languedoc while keeping a sense of place.
    Interesting also that I sometimes feels like there's some wood (never annoying, maybe more a textural feeling) when only cement vats are used...
    90% Syrah-10% Mourvedre

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  • JJKinch wrote: 91 points

    January 19, 2013 - Cherry, slight blueberry, slight olive, nice herbal element, slight garrigue/ bramble. Lingering finish. Cork soaked through, capsule looked oxidized. But color was good, really drinking well. Pretty fresh.

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  • Chomsky wrote:

    January 19, 2013 - The second of two bottles from an old cellar, and the one with a fully intact cork. The fill was just at the base of the neck. This bottle was less extravagantly open than the leaker, but it was the better wine; Salil's note captures it very well. What a great domaine Peyre Rose is.

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  • salil wrote: 93 points

    January 19, 2013 - Awesome. Meaty, savoury, saline, leathery - just everything I'd want in an older bottle of Syrah, showing none of the ripeness or richness I'd expect from a Languedoc wine, and instead conveying a combination of finesse and sauvage wildness at the same time that had me thinking of a very good Northern Rhone. Thanks Z.

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  • Chomsky wrote:

    January 11, 2013 - One of two bottles purchased from Chambers from an old cellar they acquired -- and by far in the worst condition. I have never opened a more obviously leaking wine. The fill was below the base of the neck, there were signs of leakage all over the exterior of the neck and a few spots on the label, the capsule was practically glued in place with encrusted old wine, and the cork was totally shot and overtly shiny-wet on top. I expected little.

    The wine is glorious.

    Either 85% or 90% Syrah with the rest Mourvèdre, from a single vineyard in the Languedoc. Funky bottle stink blows off quickly with air, revealing a deep, meaty, damp-earthy (and a bit bretty) and beguilingly wild red wine of obvious Southern origin; it's a lot like an old-school Bandol, with some volatile acidity and and salty/minerally character. Utterly alive in the glass, it's taken on additional pipe tobacco tones as it's had time to breathe. This wine must have been stored properly and only leaked due to a lousy cork. What a treat!

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