The CT integration is just too easy! I cut and pasted my note into Rob’s thread, as I thought it would be more appropriate to be able to easily compare and contrast both notes since they are about the same wine, just different vintages.
Sorry!
The CT integration is just too easy! I cut and pasted my note into Rob’s thread, as I thought it would be more appropriate to be able to easily compare and contrast both notes since they are about the same wine, just different vintages.
Sorry!
I’m drinking a cellar ‘lost & found’ 2007 Mourgues du Gres ‘Les Capitelles’ rouge [Costieres de Nimes] right now. I think this flagship bottling gets the old vine syrah, and a little more aging, compared to other offerings. I’m not sure that really makes anything better. There is a kind of sameness, a heaviness, that I get in many of these tete du cuvees from smaller AOC’s in 2007. 14.5% abv, dark and full, some licorice/prune and then finally a red plum flavor. Also meatiness. I don’t think its overly oaked or anything - or at least not apparently at this point - but it feels ponderous. I had a couple of glasses over a couple of nights while prepping simple suppers (tacos, roast chicken etc.) but switched to water for eating. This I think would show better in a panel tasting, with the stuffing to smoke out comparable wines, but gets to be too much with a whole bottle to drink by myself. The SO took a sip and declined, opting for a hot cider with spiced rum instead. I’ll give it a B as it is objectively good, and mostly up my alley for the zaftig wines I favor, but maybe I should have just had a gamay instead… Added later: I’d bump it up to a B+ by the third (and final) night.