Community Tasting Notes 5

• defigio wrote: 88 points

  October 16, 2013 - Unfiltered, cloudy garnet color. Ripe red fruit (more sour on the palate), red plum, leather, black pepper and indian spice. Earthy minerality, no evidence of oak. M acid, and M very mealy/chalky tannins. M+ body/alc. Pair with duck, pork belly, or something fatty to break up the chalky tannins.

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• maxmanx wrote: 86 points

  November 28, 2010 - Simple CDR. Glad I only bought 2.

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• ChateauTooting wrote:

  January 10, 2010 - On the nose there's initially a very slight amount of oak, just a little bit of cedar, and beyond that you find what was the jammy fruit developing nicely, with hints of damson, black olives, and a bit of menthol intertwined with the slightly restrained dark fruit.
  
  On the palate it's a different story - although initially a little watery to begin with, it has a nice amount of weight to it, medium+ with balanced acidity, though there is still quite a lot of chewy tannin to it. The fruit strangely feels quite extracted: big rich damson fruit, perhaps some black olives but not so much as on the nose, there's a little of cedar spice, but it doesn't feel like there's too much oak here in the mid palate, perhaps the fruit is masking it? Well I would add.
  
  The mouthfeel is slightly grainy with a spritz of minerality but it then turns a little bitter at the end perhaps due to the oak? Slightly warming on the finish, there's a decent length to it leaving you with a little oakiness. Not bad at all, nice development but a little alcoholic for my taste - it's labelled 13.5% but it feels more like 14%+.
  
  But, for less than £7 from Majestic this is surely a bargain to be had, if you can find it!

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• jakuda wrote:

  January 1, 2009 - My go-to 2005 CdR. Ripe fruit, but not over-the-top jammy. Some spice and dusty wood on the nose. In the mouth, it's medium-weight, with gentle tannins and acid. Close to seamless. No wonder I bought a lot of this wine.

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• Wicker Parker wrote:

  September 15, 2008 - This wine illustrates the difference between "more is more" and "too much is never enough." That is, it's a large-framed, very ripe grenache + syrah blend that also delivers garrigue, spice, minerals, and acidity by the bucket, but it's balanced and not (quite) over the top. A few years in the cellar should be very kind to this wine, and to you.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine de Piaugier
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Côtes du Rhône Villages Sablet
• UPC Code 356852000102

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• In Cellars 12 (18%)
• Consumed 55 (82%)

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