TN: 2007 Château Mourgues du Gres Costières-de-Nîmes Terre d'Argence

See here.

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.
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