An Epic Summer Wine Weekend - Year 2; 6/30/2023-7/2/2023 (Muskoka, Ontario, Canada): [Tasted Single Blind] This pours very light garnet in the glass with light bricking. Just a gorgeous right from the first pour showing dried orange peel, dried ginger, dried red currants, mesquite smoke, BBQ chips, menthol cigarette, smoke, dried rose petals and crushed slate. The palate is bright and elegant, entering on lifted orange peel with medium minus tannin and medium plus acid. The finish is long, bright and floral with whisps of dried orange peel. I was fairly certain I knew what this was. I brought this bottle and had noticed the super light colour through the glass. While perhaps not showing the most quintessentially Northern Rhone profile, the sheer elegance was astounding. At times tasters wondered if this could be an old, cooler year Chave. What a great showing that was beyond my expectations.
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Drinking particularly nicely. Has plenty of smoky lift to the aroma and notes of plant matter and the dark soil it was grown in. The fruit is red and crunchy and palate compact and sinewy. There's some leather, tar and beef stock and It gets more floral with air and is nicely proportioned and balanced.
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Punchy nose of beef stock and smoke. The palate is still fresh with crisp red fruits that are tinged with earth. There's some leather and tar development and it is a thoroughly satisfying drink in a very nice place now.
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7/1/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 95 Points
An Epic Summer Wine Weekend - Year 2; 6/30/2023-7/2/2023 (Muskoka, Ontario, Canada): [Tasted Single Blind] This pours very light garnet in the glass with light bricking. Just a gorgeous right from the first pour showing dried orange peel, dried ginger, dried red currants, mesquite smoke, BBQ chips, menthol cigarette, smoke, dried rose petals and crushed slate. The palate is bright and elegant, entering on lifted orange peel with medium minus tannin and medium plus acid. The finish is long, bright and floral with whisps of dried orange peel. I was fairly certain I knew what this was. I brought this bottle and had noticed the super light colour through the glass. While perhaps not showing the most quintessentially Northern Rhone profile, the sheer elegance was astounding. At times tasters wondered if this could be an old, cooler year Chave. What a great showing that was beyond my expectations.
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10/24/2016 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Drinking particularly nicely. Has plenty of smoky lift to the aroma and notes of plant matter and the dark soil it was grown in. The fruit is red and crunchy and palate compact and sinewy. There's some leather, tar and beef stock and It gets more floral with air and is nicely proportioned and balanced.
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9/14/2016 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Punchy nose of beef stock and smoke. The palate is still fresh with crisp red fruits that are tinged with earth. There's some leather and tar development and it is a thoroughly satisfying drink in a very nice place now.
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1/1/1993 - tomandlu wrote: 90 Points
Actual drink date unknown but certainly 1993. Drank with Alex Matro.
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