gomestar
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Gome,
How did you like the Centine?
it's fine, nothing particularly special, but it was a good option to have at the party.
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Gome,
Just got my tickets to Pinot Days for this Saturday! The GF and I are going for our 4 year Anniversary. Now if we could only find a Hotel room for $99!
Had a 2007 Pallieres Gigondas tonight. Big tannins on this one. Really too much for my palate. Has some nice fruit underneath I think, but it's really hard to tell. Also has a petroleum tinge to it as well. Wonder if more bottle time will help this? Probably will soften some of the tannins. Hard to understand the RP 94 rating on this one at this point.
OK. This wine is a LOT more balanced out on night 2. I can actually taste the fruit. Lots of body to the wine. Fairly long finish. Not sure it's my favorite, but it's such an improvement over last night that I'm prepared to give it another try.
Wait, you guys are drinking the 06 and 07 already?
Wait, you guys are drinking the 06 and 07 already?
I was going off some of the reviews that talked about how well it was drinking now, so I gave it a run. '07 was a big vintage in the Rhone, so I suspect that this one may be more age worthy than others. No one should take anything I say about wine as anything other than my uneducated impressions.
I think KL said it was drinking well now but will last several decades. 07 is a monster year for Rhone wines - I've got pallieres racines, vieux telegraphe and ch de beaucastel all by the case for that vintage...
Very cool, P&A. Will be expecting pics and reports.
I have a case of the Vieux Telegraphe for both '07 and '08.
La Roquete is another one to try from 07 which you will find at much less than VT.
Domaine La Roquete 07 CDP Rouge 750ml
"The 2007 Châteauneuf-du-Pape (70% Grenache, 20% Syrah, and 10% Mourvèdre aged one year in wood foudres and a second year in wood cuves) boasts beautiful density and purity as well as stunning aromatics and a full-bodied, multi-textured style. The freshness and vibrancy achieved because of the cool, exceptionally dry growing season is well-displayed in the beautiful, almost Burgundian-like perfume, but the wine possesses the strength, power, and substance of a southern Rhône. Drink it over the next 15+ years."
- Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate #179, Oct 2008 90-93 points
tatter, that is a great link. On my "to read" list.
hoping for premier crus