2016 Domaine de Piaugier Côtes du Rhône Villages Sablet

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 87.4 points

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  3/27/2023 - Putnam Weekley wrote: 90 Points

  NOSE: bitter chocolate, iron, black soil, licorice, pruneaux, bay leaf. Proper and ripe. MOUTH: syrup leads the event, releasing loosely joined sensations of tonic leaf and plum. Felted tannins hold the base intact while diluted bergamot and muscadine acids fill the frame. Coming back to the nose, I find remarkable expansion and elaboration of detail—always brooding, earthy, and sticky. Chocolate and iron. This would be a dissociative 89 points if I were rating it now.
  24 HOURS later, ~16 oz. remain: the gains made in the direction of coherence serve to emphasize its rambunctious, boozy meat. Iodine. Lurid, carnival fried crusts dusted with cinnamon. Halfway through the bottle I discovered the thrill of pairing it with Ortiz anchovies straight from the little jar—expletive superlative. (I know of no substitute for the slightly sweet and meaty flavor of that brand.) This goes in the bottle-per-year file, which means the last one will be opened in 2027.

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  9/30/2021 - JFW Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Actually did a little mini vertical with the 2018. By a slim margin, we like the 2016 better.

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  1/10/2020 - JFW Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Drank a bit heavier and more saccharin than we are used. Coming off a period of n-a, so palate may’ve been off.

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  3/27/2019 - M57 Likes this wine: 89 Points

  More purple than garnet. Pepper and a hint of earth on the nose. Medium. On the bright side, with rose petals, apricot, and cherries. A hint of vanilla, but not anywhere near the vanilla bomb that I find intolerable. Much more open and even on the day two, where it moves evenly on the palette. This is a wonderful pizza/pasta mid-week wine with an outstanding V/P ratio. It will probably improve a little in the cellar after a a pair of years, but why bother? Open now ..but drink on day two.

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  10/2/2018 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  A little bit of roasted on the nose. Rather dark fruit. Actually that is tasting pretty good. Black fruit, earth, mineral,

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