2012 Fabien Jouves You Fuck My Wine?

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  8/12/2015 - Krassens Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Plums, young tannins, fennel, non-ripe morels, white pepper, easy drinking but nothing overly exciting.

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  2/9/2015 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  A blend of Côt (Malbec, 70%) and Jurancon Noir (30%) from Cahors. Named because of the decision to exclude Jurancon Noir - a traditional local variety - from the list of allowed grapes of appellation. Fermented spontaneously, macerated for 7 days and aged for 6 months in concrete tanks and old oak barriques. Because the wine is Vin de France, the vintage is not indicated in the front label.
  
  Dense, opaque blackish-red with a hint of youthful purple hue. The nose feels slightly stuffy and slightly stinky upon opening with some reductive skunk and gunpowder smoke aromas. However, the off aromas blow off, revealing a sophisticated and slightly restrained nose of peppery spice, ink, some crunchy dark berries and a hint of earthiness. The wine is ripe, juicy and lively on the palate with full body and bright flavors of sweet dark berries, allspice, some aromatic green herbs, a little bit of crushed peppercorns, a hint of succulent dark fruits and a touch of funky wild character. The structure relies more on the ample and moderately grippy medium tannins than on the smooth, medium-plus acidity. The finish is long, fresh and vibrant with lively, crunchy and enjoyably acid-driven flavors of peppery spice, crowberries, tart lingonberries, some stony minerality, a little bit of astringent chokeberry character and a sappy touch of green herbs. The tannins lend a moderately grippy touch to the finish.
  
  A lovely wine by all accounts: this tastes very much like a Cahors or Malbec, but without the extraction and ponderousness one so often finds in the Cahors wines. Wonderfully crunchy, bright and easy-drinking thing going on here. Based on its reductive character I could assume this wine will continue to improve at least for some years in a cellar. Great stuff, solid value at 18,71€.

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  11/4/2014 - markjanes Likes this wine: 87 Points

  deep color, ruby rim. aromatically stony dark fruits, plums, some forest floor, no new oak i can pick up. on the palate high acidity, moderate amount of midpalate weight, very few tannins, low to moderate alcohol. good balance, average length, good intensity, ok complexity. wine isn't really a finesse driven wine, a fresh and moderately fleshy texture. overall a very distinctive and well made wine... drink now.

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  11/11/2013 - Chomsky wrote:

  A lot like a young Cahors, or at least a young Malbec; sprightly and juicy with a spice/incense nose. It's a bit too ripe, a little syrupy even. Ok, entertaining label, not any other reason to revisit.

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  9/9/2013 - avp wrote:

  Juicy forest fruit nose with aromatic spice notes and incense.
  Medium bodied and juicy on the fruit-forward palate that's still delightfully dry. Red apple to darker fruits, blood and spices.
  Very nice.

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