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2014 Domaine de la Vougeraie Gevrey-Chambertin
4/22/2024 - Sotto325 wrote: 91 Points
In magnum, ready to go. Even a tad of tawny color on the edges. Delicious though quite straightforward, as their fruit-forward style can be. Not New World, but fruit pleasing and not complex. Definitely a Villages wine and enjoyable with food. Gevrey rusticity a bit, but mostly just soft, sweet Pinot tones with an age-tinged middle red fruit profile. Drink up.
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2018 Kolfok Blaufränkisch Güterweg Neckenmarkter
4/22/2024 - Sotto325 wrote: 89 Points
I normally tend more towards Pinot-leaning style of blaufranksich, not minding the Syrah predominant ones if elegantly done. This wine started out with a fun, young fruit taste at cellar temp but later warmed up to feel like a 2018 dark skinned heavier fruit wine. Plum, wood, cassis, and sous bois, with the light pepper and slightly skank notes.
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2000 Emidio Pepe Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
4/19/2024 - Sotto325 wrote: 95 Points
For those who have not had the pleasure of drinking these unique, old-world, super terroir-driven wines, do.These wines will soon be more iconic, so get them while you can. Pepe and his granddaughter make wines that age for decades. It is close to the Adriatic and a wine about which most of us knew little. Montepulicano D’Aburzzo is a grape that many confused with Tuscan grapes. These are deep soil, artisanal wines, hand bottled and showing very different characteristics as they age. JOhn Gilman did a wonderful retrospective worth reading. In some ways, I think of these as less complex amarone. There are two true amarone giants-Quintarelli and DalForno Romano– Pepe is in that league, albeit with a more modest grape. Serious dark cherry, moist soil, tar, smokey wood, dark green earthy leaves, and a rustic edge that is most welcome, especially in cooler weather. They recently released their 2000 and 2001 magnums. The market is beginning to reflect their rarity.
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