2010 Domaine les Pallières Gigondas Les Racines

Community Tasting Notes (51) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  3/21/2024 - dlowrey99 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  plenty alive upon opening, nice fruit and herbal notes, acid bright. decanted for an hour - probably too long - wine was still very enjoyable but lost some zeal.

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  9/19/2023 - platpeeps Does not like this wine: 81 Points

  Browning on the rim indicating a fully mature wine that was astringent and bitter from start to finish. Yes there was some sweet kirsch cherry fruit but it never progressed beyond that and all I was left with was a bitter taint in my mouth. I was hoping this might improve but it remains a wretched disappointment, and up there with some of my worst buys! Still four more to go. CHP 81 pts

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  6/26/2023 - VinCA wrote:

  This was a good second wine after the 2014 Ridge Syrah. More restrained, but fruit still showed well.

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  1/23/2023 - dkfinancial wrote: 87 Points

  Echoing the comments of others, this is a fully mature, rather one-dimensional red. I’d be delighted if this was a Cote-du-Rhône Villages at $20, but it was a $52 Gigondas that really doesn’t deliver for the price. Intense raspberry ganache up front and that’s it. No residual tannins, low acidity and somewhat warming on this finish. No emerging terroir notes that suggest anything other than a Southern Rhône red blend that is mostly Grencache (and it is that). Have not and would not buy this wine again.

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  10/31/2022 - Rob-Rah Does not like this wine: 74 Points

  As previous notes - now six bottles tried. This wine is a failure. Far too much woody, creosote, tar extract mars any pleasure from the fruit. Bitter and hard, not purely from tannins. Alcohol level too high and obviously hot. Pretty difficult to drink much of. This wont improve: there is nothing here to ameliorate. Will make a nice punchy gravy though.

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