Community Tasting Note

Eric wrote:

Thursday, August 4, 2005 - Tasted from 375ml which I nicknamed as a 'Pape-let'. Oh my, this was lovely and extremely reminiscent of the 2003 Pegau I tasted from fermenter last July. The nose is loaded with soaring notes of kirsch, white pepper and pine needles, yet beneath this are some more dusky scents of beef blood and mineral. The wine explodes onto your palate with wave after wave of spicy and rambunctious Grenache, loads of dried herbs, white pepper, laser-focused notes of cherry and raspberry, sort of like a Clarendon Grenache yet so much more intense, spicy, lighter and more alive. There is surprising grip and verve to this young dynamo of a wine, and as intense as the flavor profile is there is just nothing heavy or cloying here, not too much heat (but this is clearly very ripe). Is this what the 1989 Beaucastel might have tasted like on release? Wow, fun young wine, spicy, spicy, spicy!!!

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