A nice, classic Vacqueyras. Warm nose of mashed red fruits (cherry and strawberry) interlcaed with blueberry. Some garrigue and licorice notes as well. Some meaty and iron notes showing both on the nose and palate. Masculine, still structured with grainy tannins. Improved over the 2 days. Overall a very good and quite complex Vacqueyras, showing its age but still really enjoyable.
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C- Dark garnet, early bricking N- Earth, cloves T- Medium-bodied, soft tannins, medium restrained fruits of red berries. Probably has peaked but at a medium long plateau.
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Still holding very very well. Spicy, meaty and provencal herbs nose with dark fruits. The wine needs time to open up, med acidity, integrated tannin, again this spiciness is really interesting along with some raw meat and dark fruits. Lingering finish. Overall a very nice wine with a wild side which would merit another point or two with more time to open up.
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6/14/2011 - french16 wrote:
A nice, classic Vacqueyras. Warm nose of mashed red fruits (cherry and strawberry) interlcaed with blueberry. Some garrigue and licorice notes as well. Some meaty and iron notes showing both on the nose and palate. Masculine, still structured with grainy tannins. Improved over the 2 days.
Overall a very good and quite complex Vacqueyras, showing its age but still really enjoyable.
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9/9/2010 - VinoMax wrote: 88 Points
C- Dark garnet, early bricking N- Earth, cloves T- Medium-bodied, soft tannins, medium restrained fruits of red berries. Probably has peaked but at a medium long plateau.
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2/22/2009 - Brad L wrote:
From magnum. Fairly subdued, fairly ramped down. Out of mag hoping for a beast but this was low key. Vacqueyras lite.
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11/19/2008 - french16 wrote: 88 Points
Consistent with previous notes. Beefy and bloody with dark fruits.
Needed a good 2.5 hours of decanting to blow off some unpleasant aromas.
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2/26/2008 - french16 wrote: 89 Points
Still holding very very well.
Spicy, meaty and provencal herbs nose with dark fruits. The wine needs time to open up, med acidity, integrated tannin, again this spiciness is really interesting along with some raw meat and dark fruits.
Lingering finish. Overall a very nice wine with a wild side which would merit another point or two with more time to open up.
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