Community Tasting Notes 8

• pbaek wrote:

  November 4, 2018 - Much, much better than I expected. Serious, manly wine. Deep and dark with dusty fruit, tightly knit structure, tertiary notes. Needs air to fully open up. The Mourvèdre is keeping things in check and provides marks of farmyard and leather. By no means too old, can live.

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• Benj1023 wrote: 79 points

  December 29, 2017 - Meilleur que le premier.

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• Benj1023 wrote: 70 points

  December 17, 2017 - Décevant : semble avoir dépassé date de consommation malgré une nuit d’oxygénation.
  Voir si les autres sont identiques.

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• pbaek wrote:

  December 11, 2011 - Interesting approach here. Certified "agriculture biologique" so no use of pesticides etc in the vineyards, but then in the cellar plenty of hands-on 'wine-making' tricks like use of new oak, heavy extraction etc. Why? When you've cultivated the grapes to transport the message of the soil. Anyways. This wine is equal parts Grenache, Mourvedre and Syrah. Youthful purple color. Horsey nose, the Mourvedre coming through. A good mix of polished red/blue/black fruit, licorice and spices including some faint notes of cedar. Quite okay, actually, without being overwhelming. I think the Lirac from Mordoree is a more honest wine than their Chateauneuf du Pape which is a spoofy, new-world wine with no character. Will easily go another 5 years. I stopped buying Mordoree in 2001 and am working my way through my remaining bottles.

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• pbaek wrote:

  January 15, 2011 - I lost interest in Mordoree many years ago as I find there's too much work going on in the cellar. With that in mind, I was positively surprised about this wine. Still very young with lots of red cherry fruit in front, this is in a good spot right now with a good balance between the fruit and the secondary flavors of garrigue, licorice and spices. Sure, one can sense the extraction here but the age has mellowed it out a bit. Also, I think the Lirac sees less wood than the Chateauneuf du Pape? A wine for cold winter nights.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine de la Mordorée
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation Cuvée de la Reine des Bois
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Lirac

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• In Cellars 25 (35%)
• Consumed 46 (65%)

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