This is a difficult wine just past its peak. I loved it. The age greets you as you pour the wine - it's quite translucent. Yes there's oxydisation on the nose but it doesn't detract from the nutty complexity. This is nectar, smooth and delicate, very mature tasting, still very complex.
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Wine Education Service Chateauneuf du Pape Tasting (LSE, London): Looking its age now, lots of browning throughout the glass. Nose is extremely vegetal, with compost heap aromas to the fore. Some floral and minerality too. Palate is nicely soft, just about enough fruit. Quite delicate but lacks any real depth through the finish. Certainly on its plateau and slightly disappointing.
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12/26/2020 - MeMyself&I wrote: 88 Points
Opened and aired for four hours. Aged but worthy. Medium bodied.
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3/2/2009 - tendring wrote: 94 Points
This is a difficult wine just past its peak. I loved it.
The age greets you as you pour the wine - it's quite translucent.
Yes there's oxydisation on the nose but it doesn't detract from the nutty complexity.
This is nectar, smooth and delicate, very mature tasting, still very complex.
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3/2/2009 - moods wrote: 84 Points
Wine Education Service Chateauneuf du Pape Tasting (LSE, London): Looking its age now, lots of browning throughout the glass. Nose is extremely vegetal, with compost heap aromas to the fore. Some floral and minerality too. Palate is nicely soft, just about enough fruit. Quite delicate but lacks any real depth through the finish. Certainly on its plateau and slightly disappointing.
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