(Mostly) Northern Rhone Night (Browntrout - Chicago, IL): An elegant and perfumed Cote Rotie. For my tastes, it's still a bit primary but to its credit still has airiness and elegance. Could be just a weird-ish time for the 2004s, I think most are closing in on their prime drinking window while others (like this one) will need some more time to open up. Great material here, just needs patience.
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Geeky Syrah Night at Browntrout (Chicago, IL): I hear this one is a bit of a unicorn these days. The nose was dominated by smokiness, but the palate was one of sweet fruit, almost to the point where you could accuse it of being overripe (in 2004 no less). This was smoky, floral, gentle, and very, very feminine. Ready now.
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Initially, smoky, blue fruit, round, dusty sides, then with air more raspberry, smokey black fruit, silky texture. Lovely, has a certain sweetness to the strawberry fruit, slightly dusty texture. Love this Old School style. With Chomsky and Jason at Amali.
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Medium red-garnet. Medium intense aromas of beef broth, violets, berry fruit and olives. The other taster identified a hint of bell pepper and though I didn't, I believe what he described as bell pepper is what I called violets; it seems impossible to not perceive the herbal pungency, whether positively or neagatively. Lovely silkiness in the mouth, very long finish. Wonderful style without much new oak influence. Bottle #4 of twelve.
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1/22/2015 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
(Mostly) Northern Rhone Night (Browntrout - Chicago, IL): An elegant and perfumed Cote Rotie. For my tastes, it's still a bit primary but to its credit still has airiness and elegance. Could be just a weird-ish time for the 2004s, I think most are closing in on their prime drinking window while others (like this one) will need some more time to open up. Great material here, just needs patience.
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1/22/2015 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Geeky Syrah Night at Browntrout (Chicago, IL): I hear this one is a bit of a unicorn these days. The nose was dominated by smokiness, but the palate was one of sweet fruit, almost to the point where you could accuse it of being overripe (in 2004 no less). This was smoky, floral, gentle, and very, very feminine. Ready now.
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11/26/2014 - Chomsky wrote:
Beautiful bottle, in prime time. Elegance and finesse.
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11/25/2014 - Pknut wrote:
Initially, smoky, blue fruit, round, dusty sides, then with air more raspberry, smokey black fruit, silky texture. Lovely, has a certain sweetness to the strawberry fruit, slightly dusty texture. Love this Old School style. With Chomsky and Jason at Amali.
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7/31/2013 - Hodby wrote: 91 Points
Medium red-garnet. Medium intense aromas of beef broth, violets, berry fruit and olives. The other taster identified a hint of bell pepper and though I didn't, I believe what he described as bell pepper is what I called violets; it seems impossible to not perceive the herbal pungency, whether positively or neagatively. Lovely silkiness in the mouth, very long finish. Wonderful style without much new oak influence. Bottle #4 of twelve.
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