TN: '95 La Cardonne
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- Karena Shannon - 01-12-1999 Picked up one of these on Bucko’s glowing recommendation and I have to admit that the Okie is dead right on this one. My notes indicate that it’s roughly 50-50 Cab/Merlot, with some Cab Franc thrown in. The wine requires a generous dose of air. Without it, it is extremely tight, with light “briarâ€, raspberry, and “baking rack†spice notes. Give it some air in the decanter and whooowee! The Cab didn’t make much of an appearance to my palate, but the Merlot was there with a vengeance. Big jammy fruit that just built and built on the previous aromas, coated the palate and buttressed a very healthy dollop of tannins (“searingâ€, Jake said). Tame this bad boy with a steak, or some stinky rich cheese, which is what we did. Is it “greatâ€? No, but it’s pretty damn good. We poured roughly half of it back into the bottle, to use for a red-wine reduction the next day. When we retried it, the nose was huge---no other way to describe it---it smelled like very expensive, very concentrated balsamic vinegar poured over strawberries (in a good way <G> ). It may have been committing suicide before our eyes, but it sure was leaving a beautiful corpse. Bluntly, the less than enthusiastic reviews on other boards are wrong. That or the posters have RCK12’s or Burg Hound’s cellar<G>. At $12 a bottle, this is one huge QPR gem. (though not the QPR find of the year; that would have to be the ’95 Souverain Pinot Noir RRV Reserve, for $75/case---just forty cases left at the winery, and no, I don’t work for them either <G> ) - Bucko - 01-12-1999 Flattery will get you everywhere. ;-) Try the 95 Chateau Greysac at $15 - I've seen it trashed too, but I thought that it was a LOT of wine for the money. The 96 is getting poor ratings BTW. Bucko |