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Community Tasting Notes (480) Avg Score: 90.0 points

  • If you have a bottle of this wine, drink it yesterday. it won't get any better, but it continues to show signs of life!

    I enjoyed this bottler with a meal of lamb chops, sautéed mushrooms and a vegetable mix (zucchini, onions, green and red peppers, and squash).

    This venerable wine is a quiet conversation with an old friend, where you speak in whispers, but of weighty things.

    A twenty-two-year-old vintage of a southern Rhône wine is a bit of a risk, but this one pays off. The wine does show its age, with a full centimeter of ullage below the capsule, noticeable streaking up the cork and browning around the rim, but it nonetheless shows signs of life.

    The bouquet is dominated by tertiary aromas that result from its years in the bottle: leather, cigar box and prominent "funk" (Brettanomyces). It sits with medium-body on the palette hinting at its restrained 13.5% ABV. Its warm, gentle tannins are a soft, fleece blanket.

    The savory entree and sides bind with the tannins to coax out fading echoes of fruit, including cassis, cherry and raspberry, that evolve across a gradual decrescendo over a long finish.

    This wine is an historical document, a true message-in-a-bottle, crafted and sealed by the winemaker until opened and received this evening, more than two decades later.

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  • Stewed fruit, lots of sediment. Took a gamble on this one, sadly lost.

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  • Definitely getting a bit brown. Decent nose. The fruit is drying up and the finish is a little drying. Would probably have been better to drink this 5 years ago. I think the tannin has outlasted the fruit.

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  • Drinking surprisingly well and still keeps a core of fruit - dark cherries and cassis - though being dominated by age notes as leather, coffee and herbs. Slightly oaked for my personal flavor but certainly an enjoyable wine

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  • Delicious. Drink now, more age won’t help!

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    January/Febuary 2004, IWC Issue #112, (See more on Vinous...)

    (E. Guigal Chateauneuf du Pape) Login and sign up and see review text.

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  • By Richard Jennings
    12/20/2007, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 92 points

    (E. Guigal Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Light medium garnet red color; beefy nose with a hint of cinnamon; light-medium bodied, tasty, beef, garrigue; medium finish
  • By Richard Jennings
    11/27/2004, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 90 points

    (E. Guigal Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Nice peppery nose; light-medium bodied, borscht, red fruit and pepper palate; short-medium finish
  • By Richard Jennings
    6/26/2004, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 92 points

    (E. Guigal Châteauneuf-du-Pape) Beet nose; nice, beet, beef palate with a touch of horseradish; medium finish

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