2006 Domaine Sainte-Anne Côtes du Rhône Villages St. Gervais

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  4/6/2019 - charmes83 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I admire this domaine hugely. This wine is nearly 13 years old - is a humble wine apparently - and yet the freshness and fruit is as pure as if it was made last year. It is balanced and simply a joy to drink. If only this wasn’t my last bottle...

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  1/15/2017 - chambolle Likes this wine:

  I have to weigh in on this 'minor' wine, because the other notes here do not do it justice. I dug up a few bottles while racing around trying to avoid damage after a pipe sprung a leak in the cellar. With no preconceived notions, opened it with a simple roast chicken dinner. The color remains youthful clear deep red. The nose is wild cherry, a bit of thyme, 'pretty' would be an appropriate word. On the palate, there is refinement and delicacy I would not expect from run of the mill Cotes du Rhone Villages. Medium weight, fresh, with some fine grained tannins showing but not obtrusive. Silky, fruity, appealing, with the slightest note of warm licorice at the bottom end. On day two, even better.
  
  All the wine needed, evidently, was a decade tucked away and lost in the corner of a dark, cool cellar.

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  8/24/2012 - acidqueen wrote: 84 Points

  I keep wanting to like this wine more. It isn't bad, and certainly drinkable, but it just doesn't sing for me. A bit too rustic and hard to love. Never really softens even after lots of decanting. Fine for camping, but not one I seek out for drinking at home.

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  12/23/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Medium red. All tapenade, rosemary, and licorice on the nose. After this promising Provencale start, disappointing flavors-loose, low acid, lacking fruit, and rather non-descript with a short finish. Many better choices at this level. Pass.

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