Evolved for better (acidity upon opening) & worse (subtle rust) Kid's scribbling implements, blood oranges, black olives, and old cherry or walnut drawers Mixing the last of it with 2018 Capçanes Mas Donís revealed previously unnoticed iron & roses
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Nice if not exciting, red fruit, cherry, raspberry, earth, balanced and moderate weight on palate, low/moderate acidity. Has pleasant presence in nose and on palate. Might have been a tad better a year or three back given trajectory of notes from Short & Confused to present, or at least had more crunch. Drank over two nights and it didn't change much.
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Not nuts about the soft, somewhat muddled plum and cherry body, which lacked the electric acididty the '15 Champs Claudes had last year, though of course much can happen in a year, but relatively saved by a late gurgle of something emergent like a spring in the middle of a morass. This may be nothing more than rocks, but life is much too beautiful to strip away its mystery, and love is too complex to try to dissect
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10/5/2023 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente Likes this wine:
Evolved for better (acidity upon opening) & worse (subtle rust)
Kid's scribbling implements, blood oranges, black olives, and old cherry or walnut drawers
Mixing the last of it with 2018 Capçanes Mas Donís revealed previously unnoticed iron & roses
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2/3/2023 - wayfarer Likes this wine:
Nice if not exciting, red fruit, cherry, raspberry, earth, balanced and moderate weight on palate, low/moderate acidity. Has pleasant presence in nose and on palate. Might have been a tad better a year or three back given trajectory of notes from Short & Confused to present, or at least had more crunch. Drank over two nights and it didn't change much.
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2/12/2022 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente Likes this wine:
Not nuts about the soft, somewhat muddled plum and cherry body, which lacked the electric acididty the '15 Champs Claudes had last year, though of course much can happen in a year, but relatively saved by a late gurgle of something emergent like a spring in the middle of a morass. This may be nothing more than rocks, but life is much too beautiful to strip away its mystery, and love is too complex to try to dissect
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9/17/2017 - grantsky wrote: 88 Points
Good vintage for this wine.
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9/14/2017 - Xuzab Likes this wine: 89 Points
Very good--not particularly complex, but very good.
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