2020 Grands Carmes de Simone Vin de Pays des Bouches-du-Rhône Rosé

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  4/15/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Provence (Mexicantown): 7/12. This pour immediately follows a tandem of Pradeaux Bandol rosé. The transition begins medicinal, with stalky herb saps and settling fogs of yellow stone dust. Presently, aromas and flavors enter. They resemble sweet, premature strawberries, celery/rhubarb, mint, redcurrant, flint, opium, and hazelnut's shells. Attenuated. Appetizing thread of bitterness. Its broad texture is overwritten with informational edges. Pulsing with vitigenic acidity. This wine might cellar well past 2030.
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  48 hours later, it tastes ever as fresh and juicy, and a bit more mature, sweeter of strawberry. Two variables might explain this: 1) the chemical effects of aeration, and 2) sensitivity conditioned either by a leading drink of Bandol rosé or the lack of one.

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  1/10/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  6/12. NOSE: a tall pour and rolling aeration coaxes raspberry, salt, iced tea—and one ephemeral nano-strand of latex—suggesting mouthwatering depth. MOUTH: strawberries weeping red juice; an open, weathered slab of pastel bedrock; mint infusion; a full-hearted embrace of supportive acidity and demure tannin. A stone flywheel organizes its appeal, producing a flavor I otherwise associate with Hermitage, Rayas, the Simone estate (and other random references.) On the cusp of 93, again.
  Six bottles into this case suggest a simple rule: chill it thoroughly in the summer, and don't forget to drink it in winter when cellar temp will do fine. Use its presence and inertia to your advantage.

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  8/4/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  5/12. Given a hard chill, on the cusp of late summer, this drink gets the most from its strident alcohol. Red melon, mulled strawberries, leafy herbs, and calcium. Plenty acid, the big splashing texture of a drink recedes gradually into appetizing, bitter stone. Sensational through the last drop, found after only a few hours, and paired with hybrid baked bean detroit coney hot dog sandwiches.

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  3/30/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  4/12. Millennial-X session last night caused this to enter unironically on the side of ... X? It was fat, and sluggish, so that's what I'm going with. Now, 24 hours later, I fall into its exotic, byzantine perfume. Almond, black cherry chordial. Zipolite fruit basket. Sturdy mineral structure. Generous glycerin weight obscures significant tannin. Somtimes I think this is the nu-climate superior to Chateau Simone, but no, it's just readier and more mobile.

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  1/30/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  3/12. 14% abv. Forget trying to force this into word parcels of botanical flavor—so I tell myself. It's an immersion experience. Sweetness gliding with authority yields impulsive branches of seasoned structure. Palette's terroir is in plain view, with its balsam and tea. Substantial bedrock acidity moves the event along at a pace that defines comfort. It's juicy and elaborate. The finish seizes gradually with a focus on eastern spice exchanges and geological glitter. Live chat is asking how this item compares to estate grown Chateau Simone rosé. Answer: a blood relationship is obvious, while of the two, this—Les Grands Carmes de Simone—is more ready for translation.
  
  Why is a boozy rosé too heavy in July, when a Manzanilla—of comparable alcohol content—is so apt? Maybe it comes down to the trick of plump, succulent fruit flavor. Fino is bracing and cut, while pink wine—more directly evident of grapes—offers trivial structural resistance to a thirsty gulp. Runaway feedback loops invoke editorial judgement: it's the taste your journey has trained you for. Sherry isn't an instrument of quenching in the same way that juice is. A dark January in Detroit is a complete reversal of such context, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that this 2020 pinkster drinks so well. Drink it again 5/28/2023.

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