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2014 The Central Coast Group Project Merlot Super-Cali
5/2/2024 - sh6k Likes this wine: 95 Points
On opening: big big nose of raisins and grape candy and generally warm / cooked? flavors. Palate similar plus the signature CCGP juicy acidity. Overall tasty but a little simple.
After an hour: huzzah! More caramel and butterscotch rounding out the fruit and adding depth.
Great wine.
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2014 Lillian Winery Syrah
4/30/2024 - sh6k Likes this wine: 96 Points
Very pretty, very interesting, very complex. Different notes every time -- violets, then coca-cola including the cooling feel, then vivid green strawberries, then brandied cherries, then melon, then green bananas, etc etc. Always bright fruit with a hint of green/cooling. Slight undertones of meat but very subtle. Ditto slate and mineral. Tannins noticeable on the teeth but not offensive and adding good texture. Long finish, mostly on the violets and fresh green notes. Delicious. Ink dark purple color.
Why not higher score? It's all a little subtle and restrained. Possible that more decanting would open it up (was approx 45 minutes by the end).
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1999 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Turque
4/29/2024 - sh6k wrote:
Not rating because my bottle was clearly not up to snuff. The cork was in perfect condition and no TCA smell, and the color was dark purple with no fading, but there was an old wine horsey / barnyard smell that only got stronger with decanting (drank over 90 minutes) and aerating. There were interesting leather and dark fruit notes but again they got progressively drowned out by the stampede of horse.
From others' reviews I'm gathering this was an anomaly, but also may indicate the wine is reaching the end of its life.
So disappointed because it was my first Guigal.
Update after a night in the wine squirrel: the horsey note is mostly gone, but the wine is thin, like it was corked (again: didn't smell TCA but I'm not very sensitive to it). Hints of violet, but otherwise not much going on. Poured it down the drain :(
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