I like it but only with food, especially tomato-based dishes. The friendly acidity of this wine marries well with tomato sauce. Notes of barely-ripened strawberries and cherries. The finish is alcoholic (not good); no complexity there. The problem with this wine is it is over-hyped on the back of the bottle: from the same estate as Haut-Brion, touted as elegant and complex...it just doesn't live up to the hype. It's a $20 wine, not a $60+ wine. As Wine Cellar Insider Jeff Leve points out, it's an ideal wine for a restaurant (Italian restaurant especially): not complicated, approachable, goes well with the food, but put it on the lower half of the price scale.
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Black fruit up front, kinda flabby through the core and fades out towards nothing really that interesting with minus acidity and not much in the way of tannin. Meh.
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5/13/2024 - LaGardere Likes this wine: 86 Points
I like it but only with food, especially tomato-based dishes. The friendly acidity of this wine marries well with tomato sauce. Notes of barely-ripened strawberries and cherries. The finish is alcoholic (not good); no complexity there. The problem with this wine is it is over-hyped on the back of the bottle: from the same estate as Haut-Brion, touted as elegant and complex...it just doesn't live up to the hype. It's a $20 wine, not a $60+ wine. As Wine Cellar Insider Jeff Leve points out, it's an ideal wine for a restaurant (Italian restaurant especially): not complicated, approachable, goes well with the food, but put it on the lower half of the price scale.
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12/16/2023 - Toasty Oak wrote:
Dusty, dark cherry, herbaceous, a bit austere on the palate. Got better with swirling. Small sample.
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12/3/2023 - Big Pauillac Does not like this wine: 100 Points
Not very exciting. Thin and forgettable. Lacked after taste and power in the mouth
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11/4/2023 - remyworldpeace wrote: 86 Points
Cassis, Blackberry with some ashy earthiness and touch of graphite. Quite interesting as a basic, entry level Bordeaux.
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9/26/2023 - oropeza Does not like this wine:
Black fruit up front, kinda flabby through the core and fades out towards nothing really that interesting with minus acidity and not much in the way of tannin. Meh.
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