Community Tasting Notes 8

• Pipes&Pips wrote: 86 points

  October 20, 2023 - After allowing bottle to breathe one hour, slight sulfur / tar on the nose. Lots of tannins but relatively light on body / depth / fruit. Will give it another hour in the glass and decanted and report back. After a couple hours tannins settled down a bit, getting some light fruit, earth, vegetal, pepper, etc. Still a bit thin, light bodied, short finish. Not sure I'd buy again. Came back a day later to the Vacuvin'd bottle to see if I missed something. I didn't. Lowered to 86. Hope I'll find something in the other five bottles I cellared.

• Praxis wrote: 88 points

  June 30, 2023 - Blackish purple with a watery rim. A very tight and shy nose of muted fruit with a hint of forest floor, dried green herbs and cedars oak upon opening but opened every so slightly after an hour of air. The palate is dry, with plenty of verve and intensity despite its lighter frame. This young wine is light to a medium-bodied at best, fairly smooth and pleasant on the palate except for some unresolved textural tannins and alcoholic heat which tends to stick out quite a bit. The flavor component is dominated of light but dry red fruits, wild spices, lots of greenish herbaceous and leafy vegetal characteristics, black tea, earthy loamy minerality and a slight touch of cedar and oak. Overall, this is a simple and somewhat modest especially when it comes to the fruits but nonetheless a very well made young St. Estephe red for this price point. I think this would be best paired with assorted charcuterie, cheeses with fruits rather than on its own. 86 - 88.
  
  It's really good to be back tasting wines and writing CT taste notes again after a 2 month hiatus courtesy of a recent bout with a certain variant of Covid which resulted in the loss of smell and taste.

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• Jamieacone4 wrote:

  November 15, 2022 - Tannin

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• Jamieacone4 Likes this wine:

  November 15, 2022 - Tannic as hell, Merlot based, red fruit, stone, organic earth.

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• Motz wrote: 89 points

  November 4, 2022 - Tasting Rendezvous with Rick, of Rick & Ilsa: Drank over three days, on the second with Rick. In a lighter, restrained style. Seemingly equal parts Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Very much enjoyed the absence of heavy oak treatment and the 13 abv, if I recall correctly. A greenish, metallic twang, typical of excessive pressing, shows at the back; the only reason I cannot score this 90 points. A few years in bottle will do it no harm.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type Red
• Producer Château La Croix de Pez
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation St. Estèphe
• UPC Codes 3423290173297, 3455441575308, 639737978926

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• In Cellars 22 (54%)
• Consumed 19 (46%)

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