2018 Château Simone Palette Rosé

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  4/15/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Provence (Mexicantown): This pour is the fifth and final in a flight of Provençal rosé wines across two domaines and seven years.
  Four years ago, this tasted of punch bowl—sticky and alcoholic. Now, desiccated, the elegance of its skeleton is bare. TASTE: impacted, stained glass vibrant fruit and scented sap. This is more remote than its 2020 sibling, sealed as it is under a glaze of biological time. Subtle eruptions of strawberry cured with brown spices and leather; dried lemon peel; orange seed; nutrient soil; marmalade; adhesive tannins. Notice spirited, sticky shades of eucalyptus. It's boozy, and intensely yielding of flavor; spined skin; lime, mint, lingonberry; marsh; driftwood; charcoal. I could be persuaded this bottle has seen its peak, with a caveat: this cuvée is licensed to suprise in that regard. 91 points at 45° F. 94 points at 60° F. At 80° F, 100.
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  24 hours later, it has paced through the usual compression and blooming familiar to table wines of its age and stature. There's lots of text here, and beckoning reservation. It exemplifies certain virtues I associate with Bordeaux and Burgundy. (Is it's relationship to those storied references schizoid, or synthetic? Anyway, that's the contest that animates the dialog.)

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  11/18/2023 - kohada Likes this wine:

  Hitting it's stride. Velvet tannins, texturally pleasurable, macerated strawberry with an interesting medicinal quality to it, without being too bitter. Also reminds me of apple skin on the finish.

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  3/25/2023 - 560 B&W Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Quite a bit of body. Not a summer crusher. 14%

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  8/23/2022 - pbaek wrote:

  Quite young, aromatic, spicy. Strawberry notes combined with citrus fruits. Earthy, complex. I’d give this a few more years. As usual, a wine of tremendous character.

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  4/17/2022 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  From magnum. Maybe not the most interesting vintage for this wine, it is a little soft, but overall nice and fresh, and quite long. It really does drink somewhat like a red. Lovely stuff, and surely worth following another 5+ years. Actually, it'll probably be a lot more interesting with a little more time.

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