TN: 2007 Delas Frères Côtes du Rhône Saint-Esprit

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  • 2007 Delas Frères Côtes du Rhône Saint-Esprit - France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Côtes du Rhône (12/20/2009)
    Smooth, dark blackberry/cherry/plum/blueberry fruit…not much “Rhoneness”. Has some nice licorice, clove spice, marinated in orange juice meat. I don’t get any pepper, which is a MUST in Rhone…and you can tell the “cheapness” with the tell tale red wine vinegar-ness. For $9…it really is an ok CdR…a wine to cook and sip with imo. (88 pts.)

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Completely agree. This is an 87 pointer to me. Don’t know what made RP see 90.

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A completely inconsistent wine to me. Some bottles are very nice and rich up front fruit and others (maybe the majority) are sour, pugnant, horse manure nose and dreadful. I would average them out at less than 85 since the bad have outweighed the few good.

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tremendous bottle variation here…
there are different label stickers out there…

Scott

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What Scott and Jack said.

3 btls drank, 3 btls sucked.

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One of the few times that RMP’s notes are completely inconsistent with mine.

I think this wine kinda almost sucks but maybe it will be better in time…if not, who cares with all the other winners in 2007 CDR. A bit lean and mean for me, certainly not an opulently texured wine.

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Went through a case of this stuff from Costco…truly outstanding QPR. Must have gotten the good lots delivered here to Tejas.

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I think that this is a great QPR, but I have have had some bad bottles. Like a previous poster said, its a great wine to cook and sip. Its a go to wine for my bastard version of coq au vin.

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I have had way more good bottles than bad (I have gone through 10 bottles from a case), but the bad ones were unpleasant to drink.

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I just thought it was bland. Didn’t suck but didn’t make me reach for a second glass.

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I had two bad bottles… I bought the first because of all the positive notes and the second one because I thought, jeez, I must be wrong, but then it was just as bad as the first. Well, guess what? I was gifted with this a few days ago and it wasn’t so bad. It was good to cook with anyway. I guess the third time’s the charm.

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A bottle drunk last night was pretty good.

It is mostly syrah, so leaner than your usual grenache-based CdR.
It isn’t from CA, so leaner than your usual syrah.

But totally drinkable for the price. (must have been a good bottle)