Community Tasting Notes 4

• La Grappe wrote: 87 points

  August 25, 2021 - A fairly deep colour; ripe, berry fruit, slightly spicy and characterful. One of the better “Finest” wines which has improved over the last year and may develop further.

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• La Grappe wrote: 86 points

  July 11, 2021 - Light but attractive, with soft cherry fruit; a good example which I have stored for a year since purchase and which is now drinking well. One of the better “Tesco Finest” wines.

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• Callum's Corkers Does not like this wine: 79 points

  November 8, 2020 - Tesco £9.00 November 2020
  
  Decanted for 5 hrs
  
  AC Languedoc-Roussillon
  
  BLB (Back Label Boll*cks)....''Full bodied with black fruit and savoury spice flavours including Garrigue, the fragrant SW French bush, and smokey notes...''
  
  
  Reasonable - but not great - value for money wine with a bit of charm; a decent enough quaffer with a touch of complexity, though for me it too had a tad warm alc' and weird chemical impression.
  
  Ready now, drink up, though at £9.00 it's probably not the biggest risk in the world to cellar, is it? I'd say until 2024 at most.
  
  N....rich ripe black/red fruit, some tar, some spice. No more complex than that.
  
  T....inky, tannins, fruit, acid all here; some power, a tad savoury, but none of their back label SW France ''wild bush'' for me. Smooth texture. Rounded. Ends off-dry. Would have marked it higher if the alc' wasn't slightly too warm/out of balance. There's a slight chemical character - I could taste it but I couldn't identify it.
  
  VFM?....feels like £10.00, costs £9.00. I won't be buying this 2018 again, I've previously had better vintages of this wine.

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• henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

  November 21, 2019 - autumn fruit, some floral notes
  Very full, raspberries, fresh crunchy fruit, some spice and herbs.
  Very good value. £9

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Tesco Finest
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Languedoc Roussillon
• SubRegion Languedoc
• Appellation Saint-Chinian
• UPC Code 5054268423717

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• In Cellars 3 (30%)
• Consumed 7 (70%)

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