Animal notes, heavy Brett and acidity for first 4 hours, then settled in to a big tasty compliment to lamb and beans. Some tar, blue fruit, prune, and tannic. Food helped a lot. Still full of gamey flavors. Nice wine, still getting better at 6th hour. Decanted from the start
Day 2 black cherry and chocolate, absolutely delicious.
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This bottle took a while to really open up since we were consuming it at a friends' home right out of the bottle. These wines continue to surprise me with their freshness, top-notch fruit, clarity of expression, and mouthfeel. It does need some time to develop so be patient with it.
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1/14/2024 - mwerfel Likes this wine: 90 Points
Animal notes, heavy Brett and acidity for first 4 hours, then settled in to a big tasty compliment to lamb and beans. Some tar, blue fruit, prune, and tannic. Food helped a lot. Still full of gamey flavors. Nice wine, still getting better at 6th hour. Decanted from the start
Day 2 black cherry and chocolate, absolutely delicious.
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8/27/2023 - William Kelley Does not like this wine:
I love Gourt de Mautens, but this particular bottle of the 2012 was totally dominated by the animal aromatic signatures of brettanomyces.
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7/14/2023 - ZMAng Likes this wine: 90 Points
Sampler. Out of enomatic.
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7/7/2023 - lvjohn Likes this wine: 93 Points
This bottle took a while to really open up since we were consuming it at a friends' home right out of the bottle. These wines continue to surprise me with their freshness, top-notch fruit, clarity of expression, and mouthfeel. It does need some time to develop so be patient with it.
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7/3/2023 - Roughl Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drinking well from magnum.
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