Community Tasting Notes 5

• J B McDonald Likes this wine: 89 points

  December 1, 2023 - Still heavy with tannins.

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• JJN Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 6, 2023 - Fabulous Kosher for Passover wine

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• Dipet wrote: 89 points

  January 12, 2023 - Black fruits . Bold. Need long aeration .
  Not balanced. I am not sure it will get better with more aging.

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• Gabriel Geller Likes this wine: 90 points

  September 6, 2019 - Domaine du Castel, Grand Vin, 2017: tasted several times through a total of 32 hours of decanting. Dark inky purple in color, with on the nose, heavy toasted oak, ripe cherries, blackberries, jammy cassis, hints of green bell pepper and licorice. Full-bodied, deeply extracted, ripe, with on the palate ripe blackberries, cassis and black cherry jam, graphite, bittersweet black licorice, green pepper, medium acidity, searing, nearly sweet tannins with notes of oak and dark chocolate on the long and intense finish. This feels like a blend of what the 2007 and 2010 tasted like upon release, the oak notes are as abundant as they’re persistent with a core of extracted ripe fruit, bordering on overripe fruit. Yet this is a clean and professionally made wine, I hope the oak will integrate with age and the fruit will calm down. 15% Abv. Drink 2024-2030, maybe longer. Tentative score 90-92.

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• Yagil wrote: 91 points

  July 25, 2019 - 2 weeks after bottling
  deep purple
  med+ aroma of black cherries, raspberries, cranberries, oak-vanilla, earth' spicy, mint, eucalyptus;
  youthful;
  dry, high acidity, med+ tannins, high abv, full body, pronounced flavour intensity consistent with the aromas; long finish;
  can drink now - requires further aging

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine du Castel
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Grand Vin
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• Country Israel
• Region Judean Hills
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• Consumed 137 (26%)

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