Pleasant but just. Light in all aspects but still identifiable as syrah with sweet fruit tinged with leather and funk. Drinks like a good cotes du Rhone as opposed to Cali syrah.
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Nice wine, the fruit was obvious but not overpowering. Enough tannin to stand up to food and probably sit a while. Not exactly a distinctive wine, but absolutely phenominal in the < $15 range. Reminds me of a typical French Rhone, and thus I like it.
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$70 restaurant price. No formal note. Tasted side by side over dinner with the '00 Clape Cotes du Rhone and the '01 Reynella Syrah (see TNs). I felt this could not hold a candle to the '00 Clape, but I preferred it over the '01 Reynella. A bottle of the '02 Qupe B.N. Syrah at a restaurant last weekend (see TN), was more interesting than the '00 version, IMO. The '00 had fairly minimal oak, reddish fruit, and, overall, showed some nice restraint compared to the '01 Reynella's sweeter, juicier, slightly overripe fruit.
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3/23/2013 - larrybbaldwin wrote: 86 Points
Pleasant but just. Light in all aspects but still identifiable as syrah with sweet fruit tinged with leather and funk. Drinks like a good cotes du Rhone as opposed to Cali syrah.
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5/10/2012 - 52winelover wrote: 89 Points
very smooth.
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4/24/2011 - nroscoe wrote: 90 Points
Subtle, smooth but still had that wonderful Bien Nacido taste for a 2000 magnum
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6/16/2006 - BrunelloRiserva wrote: 85 Points
Nice wine, the fruit was obvious but not overpowering. Enough tannin to stand up to food and probably sit a while. Not exactly a distinctive wine, but absolutely phenominal in the < $15 range. Reminds me of a typical French Rhone, and thus I like it.
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6/14/2005 - Ben Andersen wrote:
$70 restaurant price. No formal note. Tasted side by side over dinner with the '00 Clape Cotes du Rhone and the '01 Reynella Syrah (see TNs). I felt this could not hold a candle to the '00 Clape, but I preferred it over the '01 Reynella. A bottle of the '02 Qupe B.N. Syrah at a restaurant last weekend (see TN), was more interesting than the '00 version, IMO. The '00 had fairly minimal oak, reddish fruit, and, overall, showed some nice restraint compared to the '01 Reynella's sweeter, juicier, slightly overripe fruit.
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