2005 Château Fontblanche

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 88 points

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  10/29/2012 - ucbeau wrote:

  Decanted for a couple of hours before tasting. A lot of dark cherry and cassis on the nose, along with some herb and soil aromas. Smells pretty good for a $12 bottle of wine. The palate is (to me) pure Bordeaux, with lots of tannin creating a structure for flavors of black cherry and blackberry, cassis, dried herb, and black pepper. There's a definite smoky, savory note too, and if it were a bit more developed I'd like this wine even more. There's a bit of volatile acidity here that can be distracting at times, but again, for $12 this is a very tasty Bordeaux. Drink within the next 2-4 years.

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  12/26/2009 - ccrida wrote: 88 Points

  decanted 1/2 the bottle for 2+ hrs. strong dark berry nose,black currant, some pencil lead, light solvents. Taste is a little simpler, some cherries and grapes. Extremely tannic, which accentuates the alcohol, which seems bigger then the 13.5% it actually is. We enjoyed it enough that we cracked into the second 1/2, and the taste was a bit fruitier, so we probably decanted to long. Don't know much about this, but I'm assuming it's more merlot or cab franc then cab sauv....pretty tasty though, paired well with pasta bolognese, and a very solid QPR at only $13.

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