Community Tasting Notes 67

• JonBarnes1 Likes this wine:

  December 27, 2023 - Brambly nose. Fruit mostly dropped out, with echoes of fig, and herbaceous notes dominant. Thyme, a dusting of tannins and strong acidity. No sweetness or overripeness, holding up just fine but seen better days so drink up. Cork was perfect.

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• pbaek wrote:

  April 17, 2021 - This bottle seemed more tired compared to the bottle I drank in 2019. Slightly flabby with marks of dark plum, dates, figs and garrigue. Fully mature now, and still a very interesting and pleasing wine, but time to drink up.

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• Fractalage Likes this wine:

  March 14, 2021 - From Jeroboam.
  Had this for a while in original wooden box.
  Waited for a very special occasion, which is my birthday and the new moon. The Ides of March is always a special occasion.
  
  I truly detest these wax tops as they take so long to remove and make a dusty, crumbly mess. Literally all over the dining room table and floor!
  After I FINALLY removed the upper wax and cleaned up the debris, 20 minutes later, I decided to use my Durand to open this. This bottle and cork almost broke the Durand! This cork did not want to come out. The Durand destroyed the cork trying to twist it out. After almost breaking the Ah-so part of the Durand I gave up and cut off the twisted split part of the exposed cork and went with a conventional wine key. Nope. This did not work either. The cork broke again, and in trying to pull it out just fell back into the bottle, disintegrated.
  I've never had this experience with the Durand.
  I've never seen this tool almost break and the cork not budge but get ripped to shreds as the tool tried to turn and pull it out.
  Anyone here ever had this experience?
  Obviously, the cork was in there tightly, but so brittle that nothing could have worked. Maybe the larger size was in play. It wasn't dry either. The cork was very moist, but no matter now. Cork dust tainted this beauty as every glass poured had fine dust that could only be filtered, but I did not want to do that to this beautiful juice. Maybe I should try that tomorrow.
  
  This thing is some amazing wine.
  The cured meats! The richness! The garrigue!
  What an excellent expression of this old terroir.
  As it opened it became more rustic and tannic. At first it was quite luxurious and dense, but with air it sort of disintegrated like the cork. Was not a bad thing, just interesting to note. Hours later was still delicious and I expect that this will knit back together over 24 hours, but we'll see.
  
  I left half in the bottle and the other decanted half, I drank about a bottle and put the rest into the fridge.
  Jut a great wine.
  Would have loved to share, but the Bay Area lock downs are still in play (so ridiculous!) and most of my friends are too afraid to come over for a small birthday party despite t-cell immunity. Just crazy times. The world has really gone insane. (Probably just the Bay Area)
  
  I love looking at this extra-large bottle, its larger print, logos and images. It feels like an old-world remnant of glory days of joy except I’m the only one drinking of this delish juice. Should be sharing with 20 friends!
  
  At 21 years this wine is old enough to be drinking itself!

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• vagrantone Likes this wine: 90 points

  April 26, 2020 - Opened this bottle with pizza and low expectations.
  I have been drinking this wine for the last 6 years and it just keeps holding up...
  There is still plenty of fruit, life and freshness in this wine. It really forces you to re-think what certain wines become and when. Red fruit, garrigues, pepper, perhaps a distant violet note, good acidity and decent length. Two more bottles left and I'm no longer worried about how this wine is holding up!

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• JonBarnes1 wrote:

  December 6, 2019 - Strangely the reverse from the bottle we opened last week. This one had a salty nose and brownish color but still fruity, composed and easy to drink. Strawberry and lingering spice from the garrigue, to me.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2000
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine les Pallières
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Gigondas
• UPC Code 761503634887

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• Consumed 326 (59%)

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