2016 Roc de Cambes

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  4/27/2024 - AllRed wrote: 94 Points

  4th Saturday Brown Bagger (R&D's): Double blind. Youthful inky color. Aromas of tobacco, black currants, licorice, chocolate and lavender. Full-bodied and slightly firm, with fine tannins and flavors of black currants, boysenberry and chocolate. Vanilla and herbaceous elements emerge with aeration. I love the forward dark fruit here, and I kept oscillating between this and wine A for my favorite in the flight. I guessed Napa cabernet sauv blend but at no point did Bordeaux cross my mind.
  
  This had been given a decant about 2.5 hrs before service. Certainly a Bordeaux for Napa cabernet lovers, made in a modern style, which isn't a dig as it's a very good wine. Another wine that I happen to have a few of and so based on this I'll hold for a good while and hope for some of its heritage to show. 2030+. (V&M)

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  4/26/2024 - spc wrote: 93 Points

  First taste was a bit pruney and I was afraid it was bricked but an hour open and it went away and a great combination of fruit, spices (pepper and cinnamon?) and super integrated silky tannin’s appeared. Delicious.

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  4/5/2024 - jmoon wrote: flawed

  Slightly repulsive burnt rubber vomit nose. Dark strong fruit
  Would rate 80 but more likely flaw

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  3/10/2024 - Skyla venture Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Great time to open. Probably still has cellaring available but tastes great right now.

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  12/31/2023 - VAGenius Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Quick decant. Dusty baked blackberry fruit on the nose with savory dried mint and dried thyme notes. Palate delivers rich and wonderfully pure blackberry and black currant fruit with a baked blueberry pie note. Tacky tannins on the finish with black fruit, black olive, granite and notes of mint and iron. Bold and showy and in a nice place.

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