2012 Xavier Vignon & Barbare Estate Vin de Turquie Cuvée XL

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  3/30/2024 - caspernick Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Medium ruby colored with slight bricking, some staining and a high viscosity (15% ABV). The nose of this Grenache/Syrah/Mourvedre blend has medium intensity aromas of black raspberry, vanilla, baked red apple, rhubarb crumble, blueberry pie, coffee, baking spice and garrigue. The palate is dry with medium (+) acidity, a full body and medium (-) tannins that are plush. The baked nature of the fruit comes out on the initial attack and then I start to get oak nuance by way of coffee, vanilla and baking spice followed by that earthy garrigue note and some meaty hints of game. The red and blue fruit are ripe and slightly desiccated but then I get a tart finish that is medium in length, intriguing. The high alcohol hits on the back end, I normally don't sense it but this case is different. I like it all things considered- 92 points and for a wine that is already 12 years old, it's just starting to show methinks. Drink till 2030 with stews, lighter grilled meats or even pasta. At $20, worth looking out for this 5 star effort.
  
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  11/23/2023 - Lcoppes wrote: 89 Points

  But hot but not bad, not sure how much more it will hold up, maybe a few more years. Blackberry, raspberry, dark cherry. Leather and spice, baking and pepper, mineral. Med acid, fine lengthy tannins start smooth then a bit prickly on the finish. Pretty good stuff, just that 15abv bites back a bit.
  Def needed to breath about 45-60min just to blow off some of the nose.

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  6/16/2023 - acyso wrote: 80 Points

  2019 Louis Michel etc. (Chicago, IL): Served double blind. Smells a bit like a brick oven with its roasted dust. The palate is very ripe and heavy, but not too tannic. I guessed something like a petite sirah or zinfandel, but the tannic structure wasn't there, even though this did have a green streak as well. Not my kind of thing.

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  5/21/2023 - Jhtflowers Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I was hoping for a decent wine and this overdelivered. I remember loads of baking spices with the dark fruit, good tannin structure and balance. I am currently scheming up a dinner party to serve this wine with Lebanese-inspired lamb dish. Amazing value and seemed to express enough of its own character to keep it from just being a lesser imitation of CdP.

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  4/1/2023 - Side Hustle Wino Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I got this wine for $20 as a mystery bottle from Wine Spies. Given the price and that it was a 2012, and it is a Turkish wine (my first), this was quite the score. Although it had a little too much spice box on the finish for me, overall it was a beautiful wine with a lush and silky mouthfeel.

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