2018 Chateau Musar Musar Jeune Rosé

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 87.9 points

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  9/8/2021 - eyewino Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Orange/salmon color in the glass. Nose of blood orange, herbs, mineral, and even a little barnyard funk. Creamy palate with medium body, good acidity, and a long aftertaste of herbs, bitter citrus, and salinity. My first Musar rose and it did not disappoint. It definitely needed 45minutes+ of air to show well. Not for the typical rose drinker - this is a wine-lovers rose.

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  8/28/2021 - Paul852 Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Like all Musar wines this benefits from a little air (at least 30-45 mins) to get itself into balance.
  The nose is a little hot, but also wild strawberries and bitter orange. The palate is dry, complex, more of those (unsweet) strawberries and oranges, perhaps somes herbal notes. Leading into a long-ish finish where the bitter orange is to the fore. It's pairing well with dates, figs and cheese.
  
  This is my 4th bottle of this, and as always with Musar there is a little bottle variation, and it's impossible to judge this against other wines - Musar is unique.
  
  For me this is very interesting and excellent QPR at the ~US$14 that I pay (Hong Kong being a great place to buy Musar).

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  3/26/2021 - biggie wrote: 86 Points

  Fruit Day - Salmon coloured. Delicate nose of wild strawberry and orange blossom. On the palate, it’s creamy with orange zest, spice, savoury herbs, and a hint of liquorice root. The finish is where this wine shines - finishing with orange zest, orange blossom, sweet herbs, and five spice. The finish isn’t quite good enough to draw me in, I must admit. Perhaps it’s grown a bit tired?

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  1/14/2021 - Beerzebub wrote:

  By the glass at Noble Rot in Wellington. Cool, fresh, juicy fruit aroma, with an herbaceous streak and fleeting ash/smoke. Juicy and fun to drink, quite glouglou.

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  9/21/2020 - VlgJeff wrote: 89 Points

  Slo-oxed for ~15 minutes, chilled. Better than initial PnP. Red berries and a touch of minerality on the nose. The medium to minus bodied palate showed cherry, strawberry, raspberry with nicely balancing acidity, and a streak of minerality. This wine is 80% Cinsault + 20% Mourvedre from the best winemaker in Lebanon. Really good QPR at $16 on sale. May hold for another year or so.

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