2010 Domaine du Jaugaret

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 97 points

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  6/16/2019 - bubnos Likes this wine: 97 Points

  From a Coravin sample. Inky purple with no signs of age at the rims.
  
  What a massive, beautiful wine. From the start, it is nveloping you in a rich, ripe blanket of dark fruit aromas: cassis, plum, quince, boysenberry, and more. The first taste is incredibly compelling: perfectly composed with layers the fruit from the nose giving way to smoke, then pencil lead, then to rich dark earth, before the tannins finally assert themselves and segue the wine into its ethereal finish that leaves you wanting more. This is an impeccably executed arch-classical Bordeaux that strikes the balance between refined elegance and terroir-driven rusticity, without any of the underripe or Brett-y notes that characterize some of the other offerings. You could absolutely pit this bottle against a Latour or a LLC and it would give them a serious run for their money.
  
  Totally approachable now, better in ten years, probably will develop through 2040+. I’m buying all of these I can get my hands on.

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  1/10/2015 - paul clark wrote:

  Ripe, plums and cherries. Eucalyptus, pepper and mint. Enormous wine. Monolithic and, at times, shut down. Fruit cools to blue berry and cassis after some time. Forest floor and moss with discrete lactic, buttery notes evolve. On the palate the wine shows signs of being extremely ripe but there is a lifting, fresh, tingling tannin that keeps the wine on the right side of classic. I don't find a single sign of oak in this wine. It is ridiculously transparent. Bravo.
  
  Superb but be ready to wait. Wow.

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  3/30/2014 - EMichels wrote:

  Beautiful build; Soft finish; Very full fruit; Lush in every sense

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