2011 La Clarine Farm Mourvèdre Cedarville

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  8/18/2013 - missionpk Likes this wine:

  If I could buy more of this, I would. Good 11.7% alc wine is both rare and really enjoyable. It'd be really cool if wineries were competing each year to produce the best sub 12% wine. If only. I'll actually be curious to follow future vintages of this wine, as I'm guessing the cold 2011 season was a bit of an anomaly. I have a feeling I'll like them as well, though perhaps for different reasons.
  
  I don't really see the big acidity that I noted in my earlier note, so that might be part of my learning curve on these lighter wines.

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  3/2/2013 - theronware wrote: 92 Points

  Gorgeous nose of bright red fruit allied to an herbal, pine-foresty element. This thing fairly thrums in your mouth. On the palate, it's so vibrant and complex with wild red fruit again accompanying that piney, spicy aspect. A 'wow' wine for me. Kudos to the winemaker. 11.7% abv. (Note: We treated it like gamay, and served it with a good chill on it).

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  2/23/2013 - yhn wrote: 88 Points

  Needs a bit of air to open up. Nice florality on the nose, with a smoky dried herb quality and hints of sweaty leather. Light body, of course, with sour cherry and moderately ripe strawberry. There's a sort of dull sourness. Lacks vibrancy, but there's a lot of interest and it goes well with cured meat.

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  2/4/2013 - bilgepump100 wrote: 90 Points

  A really polarizing love or hate wine. I really enjoyed the brisk strawberry potpourri aroma and strawberry and slate flavor. Many, many others were turned off. Amazing that it comes across fruity and dry at the same time, 11.7 alc.

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  1/3/2013 - missionpk Likes this wine:

  Light and tart, with almost non-existant tannins. If you can appreciate the basically unbalanced acidity as a product of vintage and terroir, then the nose and taste do make this quite an interesting wine. The tart stem notes work really well with most vegetable dishes.
  
  Update: Holy cow! After 4 (4!) days, this really opened up and started to match that "mutant Beaujolais" description. The fruit (and even a bit of tannins) showed up to mostly balance the acidity and raise this from "interesting" to really quite good. Don't be afraid to give this a bit of air and/or age.

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