My last Les Gravières of any vintage and not a wine I shall regret. The oak now dominates the fading fruit completely and even at 12€, not much fun per euro. Perhaps a wine of its time. If you like a little fruit with your oak, fine, otherwise offload any remaining bottles!
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Much the same impressions as before - if you like this type of wine, this is a good enough example and at least it's not expensive. But it got me gasping for a Sociando-Mallet.
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This was a nice surprise after a very disappointing 05 last week. Full bodied, with a decent display of dark fruit aromas and a complex taste, plummy but mainly dominated by blackberry, and with an agreeable citrus fruit finish. It's peaking now but no hurry. At 15€ this was really quite good value.
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3/23/2020 - Julian Marshall wrote: 80 Points
My last Les Gravières of any vintage and not a wine I shall regret. The oak now dominates the fading fruit completely and even at 12€, not much fun per euro. Perhaps a wine of its time. If you like a little fruit with your oak, fine, otherwise offload any remaining bottles!
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5/5/2019 - Julian Marshall wrote: 89 Points
Much the same impressions as before - if you like this type of wine, this is a good enough example and at least it's not expensive. But it got me gasping for a Sociando-Mallet.
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9/18/2018 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 89 Points
This was a nice surprise after a very disappointing 05 last week. Full bodied, with a decent display of dark fruit aromas and a complex taste, plummy but mainly dominated by blackberry, and with an agreeable citrus fruit finish. It's peaking now but no hurry. At 15€ this was really quite good value.
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11/14/2016 - Julian Marshall wrote: 85 Points
In view of the price this was slightly disappointing. Still quite tannic but with muted nose and fruit- you never know, it might be a bad patch.
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