1998 Domaine La Garrigue Gigondas

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92 points

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  10/30/2016 - Ian S wrote:

  Rarely for me, a wine drunk within a few days of purchase. Great to have the option to buy mature wines.
  
  The colour is still reasonably dense and slightly dull purple/garnet, albeit with modest band of brick colour at the edge.
  
  Appealing nose with gentle pastilley black fruits backed by subtle low notes of cocoa/barnyard.
  
  Fruit lighter, more red-fruit influenced than the nose suggested, with a hint of spritz on the palate (I'm guessing this needed a day or two stood up to settle fine sediment implied by the slight haziness). Again pleasing cocoa/barnyard supporting & adding complexity, especially through the finish.

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  11/20/2010 - asgerG wrote: 92 Points

  Mature garnet red orange rim, 4½. Delicious, opoulent complex mature nose, sweet red fruit, farmyard, garrigue. The taste is perfectly balanced between the fruity, tannic and mature components, lovely sun ripened fruit. This wine has really mellowed over the years and is somply at its best right now !! Can possibly last another 4 years before it will begin to decline.

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