2010 Domaine du Grand Montmirail Vacqueyras

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  5/25/2023 - bdhanna Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A powerful Rhône !! At or near peak, well aged and delicious.
  The cork was in good shape after over a decade in the bottle, easily removed. Dark purple color with medium clarity. Consumed over two days, a powerful wine. Aromas of raspberry and garrigue, this bottle displayed some barnyard aromas. Flavors of ripe plums, black cherry, rhubarb, and pepper. A fairly balanced inexpensive wine that has cellared well. I still have a few in the cellar and will open soon to see if the barnyard aroma flaw is throughout the production.

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  6/20/2017 - blakel Likes this wine: 92 Points

  all previous notes stand, plus a fantastic bottle-aged complexity. Sorry this was the last one.

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  11/14/2016 - Arch57 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wow this wine was amazing tonight. Did a pop'n pour after a long day of working in the yard and had this with leftover beef stew (needed comfort food) and man this wine was hitting on all cylinders. I really like it when a wine is ready for business, meaning that from that first sip you say "wow this had grabbed my interest big time". Nose was fantastic as I judge them by how many inches above the rim you can sense the wine and this was in the 2-3" category. No deep diving into the glass needed for this one. This had a Bordeaux like feeling to it with earth, tobacco, leather and a long, long finish.
  Every once and a while a wine will surprise the shit out of you and this bested a young 2012 Saxum Jim Barry that I had a few nights ago. A real winner at $16.99 four years ago from WTSO. Got better with age as my prior notes indicated.

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  1/15/2016 - BrunelloBob wrote: 88 Points

  Much better than a few years ago. Pleasant dark, if simple fruit, and just a fleeting hint of the irksome acidity I noted previously. Time has helped.

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  6/7/2015 - Oldworlddrinker wrote: 90 Points

  After many years and bottles of disappointments this one showed all that I was anticipated in a A Vacqueyras, medium body, dry spicy, great length, integrated tannins. Poured over the Soirée, perhaps that made the difference

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