2010 Sainsbury's Côtes du Rhône Villages Taste the Difference

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  8/7/2013 - alanh13 wrote:

  This wine was kept in a cupboard in a spare room at ambient temperature in a London flat for two years exactly as an experiment on wine storage! Temperature probably ranged from 16C to 29C, probably averaging at around 20C. Unfortunately I didn't have a control bottle and haven't tried this wine before.
  Cork was clean and very good quality (which may say a lot about Chapoutier than anything else!).
  The wine seemed to be as expected for a good quality supermarket Cote du Rhone Villages. Definitely ready and open (perhaps early - I haven't tried any other 2010 Chapoutier CdRV). Plummy and dark fruit, but as expected: I didn't find this cooked in any way. It was slightly better at 16-17C than 18-19C - being more floral and restrained at the lower temperature, a touch on the jammy and open side for my taste at the higher temperature, especially with food (braised beef) -- but this is expected for the style. Quite an obvious syrah element to this - a little burnt, some hints of spice and liquorice. No gaminess but a bit young still for that - and again indicative of good keeping. In terms of colour, the rim was quite normal, being a magenta-purple colour. Palate was soft, a touch alcoholic (it was 14%) and with reasonable acidity for a Rhone. The finish was short but this was a £7 bottle of wine, so to be expected.
  Overall a very decent wine, good value and makes me realise ambient temperature for 2 years shouldn't do too much damage, at least for everyday drinking wines anyway.
  ... With a little more air I'm getting a toasty popcorn nose - it's almost like someone spilling red wine in a cinema!

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