2018 Georges Lelektsoglou / Compagnie de l'Hermitage Cairanne Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92 points

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  5/8/2024 - dreambeam Likes this wine:

  We don't drink a lot of southern Rhone these days but had gone in for a 4-pack from Lyle Fass a few years back. Perfect storage since receipt, these are really coming around into something more serious than the appellation & price would indicate. This held very well over two days--garrigue, cherry liqueur, dark fruits, hardly a trace of heat even given the 15%. Seconding what Keith wrote below. Glad we have a couple more.

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  3/13/2022 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Helluva lot of serious wine in here for thirty bucks. Apparently it's a blend of a quarter each grenache, syrah, mourvedre, and carignane though the grenache is dominant with that bold kirsch flavor. That's a flavor that usually leaves me somewhere between indifferent and recoiling, but something about this one me over. Once it gets past that initial impression of sweet, saucy fruit, it gets into a more robust form, showing a solid core and some wonderfully refined cashmere tannin, way too sophisticated for a country wine.

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