Bottle was in excellent condition- not at all over the hill as some reviewers have noted. Nice light orange color, excellent subtle floral nose with dark fruit notes (cherries, cassis) well intact, residual tannins and sediment provide some structure. Improved with decanting.
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Another great bottle - bark, forest, pine, sitting atop a sappy Grenache base. Very solid. Did seem to fade toward the end of the bottle, which was surprising, because initally the bottle was so solid. A lot of old Chateauneufs age great but they can be a little monolithic...not this one - very complex and interesting. I honestly don't get the halfhearted notes on this - this is very good wine, and I've had a half case of this.
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It seems like i'm not the only one to have this corked problem...Perhaps it's just the wine? My counterparts at dinner didn't notice it and actually liked it. Not as good as the bottle I had a week prior.
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7/7/2014 - redwineguy wrote: 90 Points
Bottle was in excellent condition- not at all over the hill as some reviewers have noted. Nice light orange color, excellent subtle floral nose with dark fruit notes (cherries, cassis) well intact, residual tannins and sediment provide some structure. Improved with decanting.
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10/24/2009 - fourdan wrote: 89 Points
Bo Innovation - Classic CDP, noce and taste a bit mute for me, others liked it better
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8/31/2009 - Brad L wrote:
The Janasse - our last of a case, just starting to lose its distinctiveness and sliding into old CnP generica.
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5/4/2008 - Brad L wrote:
Another great bottle - bark, forest, pine, sitting atop a sappy Grenache base. Very solid. Did seem to fade toward the end of the bottle, which was surprising, because initally the bottle was so solid. A lot of old Chateauneufs age great but they can be a little monolithic...not this one - very complex and interesting. I honestly don't get the halfhearted notes on this - this is very good wine, and I've had a half case of this.
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4/6/2008 - unrelenting wrote: flawed
It seems like i'm not the only one to have this corked problem...Perhaps it's just the wine? My counterparts at dinner didn't notice it and actually liked it. Not as good as the bottle I had a week prior.
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