Barrique-aged syrah/mourvedre blend. Coffee and vanilla nose, silky texture but with a bitter black coffee taste. After an hour's decant, a bit rounder and fleshier with some smoked meats, faint red fruit and liquorice. Hmm, perhaps this will be less disjointed tomorrow. £10 from Whole Foods. (Day 2: Much more harmonious and fruit-driven with a nice long savoury finish. I would've preferred some grippier tannins - and the mid-palate is very hollow - but at least the unpleasant coffee flavour has subsided!).
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8/14/2017 - Paul Dove Does not like this wine: 84 Points
Barrique-aged syrah/mourvedre blend. Coffee and vanilla nose, silky texture but with a bitter black coffee taste. After an hour's decant, a bit rounder and fleshier with some smoked meats, faint red fruit and liquorice. Hmm, perhaps this will be less disjointed tomorrow. £10 from Whole Foods.
(Day 2: Much more harmonious and fruit-driven with a nice long savoury finish. I would've preferred some grippier tannins - and the mid-palate is very hollow - but at least the unpleasant coffee flavour has subsided!).
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10/6/2015 - henrygjeffreys wrote:
strawbs and leather on the nose
Firm rather bitter tannins at the moment
Needs time, I hope.
A bit disappointing. Normally such a good producer.
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