Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Trip to the Southern Rhone; 6/11/2009-6/12/2009 (Avignon, Chateauneuf du Pape, Gigondas and the Dentelles du Montmirail): From 85 year old Roussanne wines, this was clearly several steps up from the CdP Blanc. Nose was deeper, more restrained, but unfolded in lovely white flowers, musk, nectarine and banana like yellow fruit and then opened even more to show sweet, sticky pineapples and a whole melange of nutmeg-like spices. Really intriguing. Tons of interest on the palate too. Oily Roussanne texture. Spicy again, with lots of yellow fruit packed in along with startling pure lychee and pear flavours with a rim of beeswax - it had a profound depth to it. The finish rounded the wine off as it started, with lots of power, yet a lovely restraint, unfolding into a long fruit and spice driven tail, with sticky yellow figs, spiced fruits and nutmeg swirling around the mouth. Very, very good. Time to drink up over the next 4-5 years, or wait for it to shut down and revive over the next two decades.

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