2009 Domaine La Garrigue Vacqueyras Cuvée de l'Hostellerie

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  9/10/2022 - chardsy Likes this wine: 84 Points

  I think the drinking window here may be generous. Darker notes, tertiary flavors are more prominent, though this bottle retained good acidity. I prefer it at cellar temperature.

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  10/11/2017 - urban_dk Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Typical for this label, from a warm vintage and in a good drinking window. Brett notes resolve to bold cherry flavor, with a meaty component to boot. Ideal for fans of the traditional Rhône style.

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  12/20/2014 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 92 Points

  The nose showed rich blackberry fruit, sweet spice, blue and purple floral tones with a hint of ginger. On the palate it was soft, medium bodied and juicy, as a mix of ripe dark fruits, inner floral notes and spice intermingled into the finish, which showed hints of tannin and dark berry fruits.

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  12/9/2014 - RGNZero Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Opens up marvelously and this comes from a next-day tasting. There’s a massive amount going on here, beginning with a nose that breathes deep forest compost, dark wildflower beds, musky blackberries & blueberries, hints of prunes & dates, and pressed dark strawberries all condensed into a vivid picture of a post-rainfall grove teeming with morning dew. The palate is a rich, raisinated, woodsy font of blackberries and black raspberries, fruit stems, and dried strawberries. The mid-palate bursts with an ashen smoke note that lingers and melds with the fruit till the finish without overtaking the other elements. This is a magnificent effort that evokes camping in deep, secluded virgin woods with dark and red fruits being smoked over a raw fire and served atop rustic cookware. Sensational structure and the continual refined, ashen element gives this wine an almost enigmatic, feral quality. Spellbinding.

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  5/12/2014 - Gordonium Likes this wine:

  Echoing other notes, I enjoyed this big, structured, Bordeaux-like wine. It needed several hours open to blow off a funk of wet dog fur, which even persisted on the palate, but after that, it was delicious, particularly on the second night.

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