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• whitmanlholt Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 10, 2024 - Slow oxed for roughly four hours. This is a medium red wine with serious tongue-staining concentration and modest sediment cake on the bottle. On the nose, I get blueberry, leather, pepper, and gamey notes. In the mouth, the wine is lively, smooth, and lush, with an unexpected level of acidity coupled with serious depth of flavor. The finish is long and savory, leaving some wild berry elements. Overall, this was a very pleasurable wine, with surprising freshness and refinement. That said, this is probably overpriced and broadly comparable Syrah can be found elsewhere (including in the Rhone) for a better price. Still, sometimes one has to ignore the price and just enjoy the experience; this wine offers a quality experience indeed. 93 points.

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• Vine wrote: 94 points

  March 3, 2023 - I bought 1 bottle each of the three La Las and this is the first one consumed. With BBQ Rib Eye steak. The wine and the steak were a perfect match. Deep, dark colour; attractive nose; wonderful long finish. Drinking well, but no doubt this has at least another 5-10 years of drinking pleasure ahead.

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• culater Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 22, 2022 - Opened in bottle 2h and drank over 2h. Raindeer, 18C.
  
  Better at the beginning 95-94p, declined with food and over the hours.
  
  Dry, low-medium on tannins and acidity. Low fruit.
  
  Drink, keep at 17C, air it.

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• dead puddle wrote: 92 points

  September 3, 2022 - Blind tasting. 30 min decant. Then tasted in zalto. dark hue with Sienna ground borders. Nose volatile of ether, flavours of smoke, leather, old grenier, wet ground and crushed blackberries. Palate powerfull of cedar, ashes, cuba cigar, mineral and long finish. Past his peak ?

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• Shloly Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 1, 2022 - The wine is clear, with medium garnet color, slight more tawny towards the rims, and thick legs.
  On the nose the wine is clean, with medium primary aroma intensity of black and red fruits, meat, black pepper, fresh green herbs, black berries, forest berries, spices, garrigue, along with medium secondary aromas of oak spices, earthiness notes, gravel, slate, mineral notes.
  On the palate the wine is dry, with medium plus acidity, medium green ripe tannins, medium plus body, medium plus alcohol, medium plus flavor intensity of ripe black and red fruits, black berries, cassis, earthiness notes, mineral notes, meat, black pepper, spices, hints of oak spices.
  The wine is of an outstanding quality, due to its length, complex aroma and flavor profile, balance characteristics, especially between the acidity and fruit concentration. It is very appealing, and generous at time of tasting, can be deceiving that it is close to its prime, but also showing green notes, present tannins, and potential for future aging, which will probably resulted in more pronounce secondary and even tertiary aromas and flavors characteristics, while keeping high acidity and concentrated fruit.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer E. Guigal
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Turque
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Côte-Rôtie
• UPC Codes 3536650131506, 790559131002

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• Pending Delivery 21 (2%)
• In Cellars 807 (70%)
• Consumed 321 (28%)

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