Gorgeous Grenache in early maturity. Essence of the varietal with wild strawberry, fresh earth, wild thyme, amd jammy notes ( as befits the vintage). The wine wears its 15.5% alcohol well, but this is clearly a massive, incredibly ripe wine that also shows impressive structure amd complexity. Roasted notes, including roast peanut notes. This is a beautiful, , mature example of Grenache that is in a particularly nice place at the moment.
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I really liked this wine. It is in a really good spot and I suspect it has a few years left. It is a bit hot but has some sophistication to offset the power. The blackberry and cassis with a touch of rasberry is alluring and fun.
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Fairly consistent over three nights. Turning orange-brown around the edges, this showed muted raspberry, but was too rough and hot for my tastes, and not particularly complex. Another 2007 from that initially overrated vintage...
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7/10/2022 - Marc wrote: 92 Points
Gorgeous Grenache in early maturity. Essence of the varietal with wild strawberry, fresh earth, wild thyme, amd jammy notes ( as befits the vintage). The wine wears its 15.5% alcohol well, but this is clearly a massive, incredibly ripe wine that also shows impressive structure amd complexity. Roasted notes, including roast peanut notes. This is a beautiful, , mature example of Grenache that is in a particularly nice place at the moment.
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1/7/2020 - citizen1 wrote: 89 Points
Agree with previous poster - it is a good place right now. Good fruit, I am picking up dark plum and earth. Excellent QPR.
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8/22/2019 - Zed57 Likes this wine: 93 Points
I really liked this wine. It is in a really good spot and I suspect it has a few years left. It is a bit hot but has some sophistication to offset the power. The blackberry and cassis with a touch of rasberry is alluring and fun.
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1/1/2019 - Quarked wrote: 87 Points
Fairly consistent over three nights. Turning orange-brown around the edges, this showed muted raspberry, but was too rough and hot for my tastes, and not particularly complex. Another 2007 from that initially overrated vintage...
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4/12/2018 - mhewitt wrote: flawed
Oxidized
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