Tim and Bonnie
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2020 Viña Peñalolén Cabernet Sauvignon
1/13/2024 - Tim and Bonnie Likes this wine: 92 Points
An interesting and intelligent wine. A muse in a glass. Carries notes of (forgive me while I overindulge myself) black cherry, dried blackberry, gooseberry, fruitwood smoke (a hint), cooked brown sugar, dried tangerine skin, red plum, mushroom, violet, pepper plant leaf, and later, eucalyptus and thyme.
It’s been a while since a wine has tempted me to analyze it, something I reserve for lush high quality wines or delicious high value wines. This it’s the latter of those.
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2019 La Compagnie Rhodanienne Gigondas Bois de Menge
6/13/2022 - Tim and Bonnie Likes this wine: 87 Points
On day one you root for this wine because it’s a Gigondas you found for $14.99 at Trader Joe’s and you want to brag to someone about the wine steal you found. You might even pull out the now non-cool term…duh, duh, duh…QPR. But, alas, as much as you try to convince yourself it’s engaging and deep, it’s only linear, monolithic. Although, it makes one crave pork or turkey, so serve it with anything with which you’d serve cranberry sauce on day one.
Day two however…
Well apparently it evolves! This wine now tastes and smells like none of the following but reminds me of them all.
First, an aroma that takes me to my childhood. It’s medicinal. Iodine? No. Mercurochrome? No. The green stuff you splotch on a wound with a sponge on a bottle like shoe polish, what was that, Campho Phenique? (Geeminee, I almost spelled it right! Google says it’s two words not one.) Maybe, Hydrogen peroxide? Mmm, nah. I’m going with Campho Phenique!
And then there’s a spice I relate to Mexican food, not cumin, not chili, but if cumin and chili and oregano and pitch and Campho Phenique had a baby…? And add some petroly, berry-kissed tangerine and I think that’s pretty close.
Would I purchase again? Yes, I think so, even if just to make myself think deeply about a wine.
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2018 Domaine de l'Eyrolle Lirac
5/21/2021 - Tim and Bonnie wrote: 85 Points
Guessing this is more like a 13% ABV. When one imagines a 15% ABV wine, it connotates an entirely different drinking experience.
It’s not bad, it’s just…meh.
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