Community Tasting Notes 11

• Nmilau Likes this wine: 90 points

  September 14, 2022 - Part Napa, part Hermitage. Too boozy and way overextracted. Still tasty but not what you would expect
  
  Currant, chocolate cake with a sugary cherry inside. If that’s what you like and u want to spend $300 on a bottle then this is the wine for you

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• pren wrote: 87 points

  October 30, 2021 - coravin第一次，不新鲜的老酒气味。两小时后散去，还是没什么气味，口中是个thick, rich, extracted,sweet的酒，类似甜咖啡的味道。没啥品种特征，喝不出是Syrah. 15度，很难相信这个酒没要new oak。
  第二次一个礼拜后，吸取前面的教训提前四小时打开，之后试了几次。还是老酒的一般过程，两小时后酱油味儿最浓。四小时后，稳定下来。气味始终寥寥，口中不再那么thick， extracted了。最突出的就是甜。老酒都一点甜，但是这个酒要甜上几倍。厚度还是在的，不涩，还是有隐约的咖啡味道。这个flavor profile，和oaky但一点年头的酒有啥区别呢？哪里有一点像Syrah呢？。
  两个月后，剩下的1/3。没啥变化，甜巧克力/咖啡味，没一点品种特征。就是个heavy的酒。

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• blank blank wrote: 93 points

  February 1, 2020 - Great, great bottle of wine; drunk at a dinner with a 2013 Drouhin Chambertin CdB and this was the much better wine; still very youthful and fruity, but with lots of smoky and floral Hermitage goodness; elegant tannin and an integrated kiss of vanilla. I’ve had bottles of Chave that weren’t close to this good.

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• Nanda wrote: 92 points

  March 25, 2018 - Showing very young with forward, rich black fruit that has notions of smoked meat, olives and black pepper. The fruit feels a bit heavy today and like its dampening the secondary nuanced notes. Needs more time.

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• acyso wrote: 90 points

  March 25, 2018 - Cassoulet at Bill's (Wilmette, IL): This is ultimately going to become an incredible bottle of syrah. But it isn't there yet. This was dark and dense, showing some blood and meat notes in combination with black fruit. The velvety texture amplifies the scale of this wine. There's a lot of stuffing here, but it's mostly all just covered by the tannic structure. Especially coming off the heels of a recently tasted 1998, I'm fairly confident this will follow a similar trajectory: we just need to wait some more.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Marc Sorrel
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Le Gréal
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Hermitage

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