2006 Torbreck Grenache Les Amis

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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  7/16/2022 - Julien D Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Another fantastic wine from Torbreck! Medium ruby to garnet color. Smells beautifully! Complex notes keep hitting strong: stewed strawberry, mulberry, rosemary and brown sugar. With more air notes of violet, ground pepper, fig, leather and wet gravel. Medium body, medium acidity and silky tannins in mouth. Notes of raspberry, prune and clay. Medium+ finish

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  5/15/2021 - VinCapitan wrote: 94 Points

  Stunning wine. Entering secondary development. Fruit to the fore again. Black cherry, plums, sweet raspberry, charred oak and earthy business supporting.
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  1/24/2021 - BAJRiley Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Appearance: deep ruby/brick showing its development. Nose: raspberries and red cherries, sweet strawberries. The fruit is nicely balanced by dried herbs, some charred oak and spice in the background. Really nice perfume. Palate: medium bodied with a restrained richness, but more of an elegant style and certainly not overpowering. Super smooth with a long dry finish. Outstanding.

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  10/24/2019 - ubercuvee wrote:

  [from 6 liter Imperials #11 & 18/30]. With the caveat that I hate Grenache and sold all my Chateauneuf - I thought this was excellent. Ripe fruit, balanced, neither alcoholic nor pruny with good balancing acidity. Plenty of nuance and complexity on the palate too. I'd prefer drink this over the Pict, the Factor and probably RunRig...

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  10/29/2018 - ikkaariainen Likes this wine: 97 Points

  We had the previous bottle now almost a decade ago and on reviewing my TN from '09 I will give it the same excellent score now but not for the youthful intensity and exuberance of yore but rather for real maturity, complexity, balance and a soft elegance that is truly rare in Australian wines. One of the best Aussies and one of the best grenaches that we have ever had. Very hard to find and we HIGHLY recommend this wine overall and the vintages of the late '00's specifically. Relatively short splash decant at Webb Custom Kitchen in Gastonia NC. 100% old vine grenache. Dark purple in color with bricking. Nose initially soft and somewhat muted but with swirling and a bit of air the nose woke up and brought forth a bouquet (in the truest sense of that word) of kirsch, kitchen spices and a hint of eucalyptus. Tannins still present but now very soft so this wine will not improve further with aging, is in a perfect mature drinking window with maybe another 5-7 years to go so for those out there lucky enough to still be holding any now is a good time to start drinking them up. Palate has an underlying hint of minty eucalyptus with smoke, grilled meats, garrigue, violet and spices with a VERY long finish. Shed a small tear on the inside as this last of our bottles was finished up.

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