Saturday night - burgers and Starship Troopers: A very welcome 12.5% abv. Some funk on the nose - never quite blows off, not quite meaty but brett or brett like. Slightly confected fruit, parma violets? Gentle tannins, this is more than the sum of its parts, but not a *lot* more.
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This is what southern French wines ought to be like more often. 12.5% alcohol, quite pale coloured, fragrant with a broad spectrum of flavours, fresh and light on its feet, and lovely length. Went down all too easily. A whole bottle mostly went between 3 of us, even though one was a designated driver and hardly touched it. And we had white first.
Decanted a couple of hours in advance.
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A bit disjointed to start but 30 mins or so saw this blossom in to a beauty of red fruits and garrigue, with a polished texture in the mouth but lovely lightness too. This slowly evolved over 2-3 hours providing enduring interest, before starting to fade with an increasingly drying finish. Rather lovely in the sweet spot. Good to go now.
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4/21/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine:
Saturday night - burgers and Starship Troopers: A very welcome 12.5% abv. Some funk on the nose - never quite blows off, not quite meaty but brett or brett like. Slightly confected fruit, parma violets? Gentle tannins, this is more than the sum of its parts, but not a *lot* more.
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8/8/2022 - Echinosum Likes this wine: 91 Points
This is what southern French wines ought to be like more often. 12.5% alcohol, quite pale coloured, fragrant with a broad spectrum of flavours, fresh and light on its feet, and lovely length. Went down all too easily. A whole bottle mostly went between 3 of us, even though one was a designated driver and hardly touched it. And we had white first.
Decanted a couple of hours in advance.
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8/1/2022 - Sinclelz wrote: 93 Points
Elegant, refined, a touch louche. Red fruits, southern French herbs, a dried floral note. Fantastic.
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5/31/2022 - Cake & Fine Wine wrote: flawed
Corked. Usually an interesting wine though.
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5/9/2022 - king-bing wrote:
A bit disjointed to start but 30 mins or so saw this blossom in to a beauty of red fruits and garrigue, with a polished texture in the mouth but lovely lightness too. This slowly evolved over 2-3 hours providing enduring interest, before starting to fade with an increasingly drying finish. Rather lovely in the sweet spot. Good to go now.
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