2015 Xavier Vignon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Anonyme

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  2/14/2024 - MS86 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Still young. Quite primary and oak dominant. Sweet tobacco, new leather, black plum and blackberry. Chalky, unresolved tannins. Persistent but moderate acids. Lovely alcohol integration. Flavours add sweet black fruit, rosemary and hints of milk chocolate. Really quite sweet on the palate. Good length. Better in 5 years.

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  12/21/2023 - Oldmanzin Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This wonderful cuvée really showed its stuff after a three hour decant. Dark red fruit, Mediterranean spice, mineral notes and licorice. Great depth and texture. There may still be a decade of good drinking in its future. Good juice.

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  10/1/2023 - Apollo5710 wrote: 92 Points

  Good showing - the nose initially showcased a blend of blue/black fruits (blueberry, blackberry, plum) and needed to be decanted. It really gained weight, depth, and expressiveness at the 2-3 hour mark, when it w at its best over the course of the 5-6 hours we consumed the bottle. At the 2-3 hour mark, the nose revealed typical notes of rosemary and lavender with hints of dark chocolate melded with the same fruit flavors. The fruit is upfront and center. The alcohol is clearly there but not overbearing or too obtrusive. We'll hold our last bottle for near-term drinking.

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  9/27/2023 - Limbus Lafayette wrote: flawed

  Off. Agree with previous note. Not good. Poured it down drain.

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  9/22/2023 - kfrench150 wrote: flawed

  Pnp. Strong sweaty horse notes right out of the gate. Generally sour, somehow off fruit notes. Must have a very bad case of brett. Will leave overnight and test it again tomorrow. Still no good. Off, stewed fruit. Down the drain it went!

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