2011 Forsythe Vineyard (Alban) Mourvèdre The Mason

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 96 points

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  9/28/2023 - Beezc Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Wow…what a beauty. I had no idea what I had. This is a special wine.

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  9/5/2021 - e-r.portzline Likes this wine: 98 Points

  This is a fantastic, elegant, expressive, complex, beautiful wine. We decanted for two hours, rebottled and corked, and took it to friend’s backyard for dinner of short ribs with herbed potatoes. It was the star of the evening (well, it was until they uncorked a 1976 Chateau d’Yquem, but then I’m name-dropping, but still…)! Velvety tannins, beautifully integrated with the fruits and the flavors of herbs, forest floor, mushroom, graphite, pencil shavings dark bramble fruits… this wine is elegant on the nose, smooth on the palate with beautiful tannins and fruit, with a lingering finish of elegance and long lasting beauty. Fantastic!!
  
  I’m going to hold my last bottle for ~5 more years… I hope.

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  11/26/2020 - cadamson Likes this wine:

  Fantastic. Fresh. Bright fruit and white pepper.

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  2/23/2017 - JonnyG Does not like this wine: 80 Points

  A painful hot mess, hugely alcoholic and astringent, with barely noticeable fruit and no discernible prospect for improvement. I would be more generous in my choice of descriptors with some lesser name, but how can this happen?!

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  11/24/2016 - cadamson Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This was amazing and far exceeded already high expectations. The nose was unbelievable. Blue and black fruits with dried meat, herbs and a ton -- and I mean a ton -- of floral aromas. The palate was equally as intriguing. Wow.

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