2006 Tardieu-Laurent Gigondas Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  1/6/2021 - prasm Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Consumed over 3 days (vacuvined and refrigerated), note from day 3. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby, no sediment. Nose: Clean, medium intensity, aromas of dried cherries, cooked plums, mushrooms, leather, and tobacco. Palate: Clean, low acid, medium tannin, medium+ alcohol, medium body and intensity, flavors of stewed cherry and raspberry, mushroom and earth with a medium length finish. My last of two bottles, first consumed 10 years ago in 2010. Probably waited a year or two too long for this. Still drinking pretty well, but definitely past peak dominated by tertiary mushroom and stewed fruit notes at the moment. Drink now.

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  7/31/2018 - Rabaja Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Singing tonight. Tasted blind and thought it was a MacLaren Vale Grenache. So much coconut oak influence on the nose with ripe blackberry liqueur, plum compote, and spice accents. Round and rich on entry with long lasting powerful fruit. Tons of length. Still big and rich but in a good drinking window. Great stuff.

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  8/23/2015 - TannicBeast Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Clear, medium (+) ruby with garnet rim. The legs are fairly thick with medium (+) extraction. The nose is clean, medium (+) in intensity, developing and qite complex. It shows aromas of black fruit, red fruit, dried purple flowers, dried Mediterranean herbs, savory spices, burnt toast, vanilla, clove, and other baking spices. There's an earthy, organic, forest floor component as well as some wet rock. The palate is dry with medium to medium (+) acidity, medium (+) tannins and medium (+) alcohol at 14.5%. The tannins are surprisingly prominent at medium (+) and then some, despite almost a decade of aging. The flavor intensity and length are medium (+), with a dry, medicinal finish of licorice, herbs and graphite. This is strictly a food wine since it is too tight and astringent by itself. It is difficult to reconcile with WS' drinking window of 2009 - 2012. Frankly, it could use a couple more years of aging to further subdue the tannins but then whatever fruit is left may be irrevocably lost.

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  2/6/2015 - StewartWent wrote: 88 Points

  Not a great start - pongy with heat and a sense of dead over-ripe fruit. Sharpened up a bit over the journey but never lost the 'Barossa' shackles; high fruit weight but lacking definition from the ripeness, long length with trade mark tannin, funky barnyard, dry (did I say long). Good but not particularly great (as they say). Structure wins me over eventually.

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  4/17/2013 - fdusonchet Likes this wine: 95 Points

  fin mineral Souple belle arome de cerise et d'amande douce Pret à boire

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