2006 Domaine Yves Cuilleron Syrah Les Candives

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  2/3/2010 - Bunch wrote: 89 Points

  Flowers, huckleberries, pink cherries, raw meat and a hint of game. Then fresh herbs, sage, thyme, garrigue, a hint of pine and white pepper all embraced by a cool clarity recalling a spring day in early May after rain. In this stage the finish has a lot of green olives and an almost Campari-like bitterness, which I personally find refreshing, but which some might find a bit too much. Definitely a terroir driven wine, but maybe caught in a moment, where it is about to shut down. I would cellar a year or two, and I my guess would be more flowers and less herbs and maybe 90 or 91p...The day after, yes indeed more flowers and the distinct herbal notes had disappeared. Still quite a bitter finish, but lovely.

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  1/30/2010 - ScottGoodwin wrote: 85 Points

  Definite Syrah nose. Fresh berries with some herbs and a dash of pepper. Palate is nice, fruit is clean, wine is well made but it's pretty one-dimensional. A nice Wed night sipper. But nothing that will knock your socks off.

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  12/24/2009 - David J Cooper wrote:

  Dark red. The nose is everything I love in a Northern Rhone. Bacon, charcoal, blueberry, cassis and pepper. The flavours however are pretty one dimensional red fruit. The finish is very bracing to say the least. My guess is the grapes come from some young vines or the terroir just isn't that great.
  
  This seems like a very promising area for Syrah.

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  3/20/2009 - A vd Vorst wrote: 91 Points

  My first though was a barnyard smell, and afther a sip: green olives and some pepper. It has acidity and the tannins were well balanced.
  my first guess was Bourgogne.

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  11/29/2008 - hutch wrote: 92 Points

  This was a very fun bottle of wine. The dominating trait is easily black pepper. One person said it was like someone grinding a pepper grinder voer your face. Another described it as liquid pepper. I would have sworn it was something from N. Rhone, and probably Cote Rotie. Which is amazing considering the price of this bottling. I became a fan of Yves Cuilleron b/c of tasting his Condrieu at Hospice a couple of years ago, and this syrah holds its own. An amazing bottle, considering the price.

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