Community Tasting Notes 2

• Tony Molester Does not like this wine:

  September 25, 2019 - Popped and poured. Perfect cork no sign of seepage
  Deep gold colour.
  Aromas of fresh pastry, butter and almond. Seemed a bit suspect.
  On the palate, the wine was certainly showing its age, yet performed much better than a very oxidised 98 Chante-alouette by Chapoutier. Sure, it was 6 years younger, but it was way more alive and fleshy. Waxy and quite delicious, if a bit muted by its maturity. Comparing the above 2 marsanne wines to several aged marsanne wines from Victoria, Australia (Lindenton and Tahbilk come to mind), i couldn’t help but feel that the oz wines, generally under screwcap, age much more harmoniously and predictably than these 2 examples from the motherland of marsanne. Very expensive and disappointing. Sometimes i wonder why i bother with the risks of expensive cellared wines with crap corks.
  
  Somewhat interesting, but ultimately a bit feeble.
  
  Avoid
  14% abv

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• pointrob wrote: 90 points

  June 18, 2013 - bright straw
  full, slightly oily
  interesting and fairly long

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type White
• Producer Cave de Tain
• Varietal Marsanne
• Designation Blanc Au Coeur Des Siècles
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Hermitage

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• In Cellars 5 (28%)
• Consumed 13 (72%)

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