Hello;
[C] Very purple, very dark.
[N] Starts with very faint whiff of anise, then, fiery, dark fruity, very
faint notes of maturity, cherry pits and blackberries.
[P] Very froceful attack with medium acidity, a great deal of tannines, not
coarse but very dominating, giving place to dark cherries, cherry pits ...
very good length.

oVERALL IMPRESSION: tHE VERY EASILY APPROACHABLE FRUITYNESS OF THIS WINE A
FEW YEARS BACK HAS NOW GONE ENTIRELY. fOR SOME REASON, gRENACHE IS
DOMINATING THE IMPRESSION TODAY (IT CONTAINS ONLY C 15 % g) while the
Mourvedre is hardly approachable. Paradoxically it appears younger and more
closed than the first time I posted my notes on it. Happily, I have several
bottles of earlier and later vintages, so I´ll be able to follow it for some
years.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren wrote:
Hello;
[C] Very purple, very dark.
[N] Starts with very faint whiff of anise, then, fiery, dark fruity, very
faint notes of maturity, cherry pits and blackberries.
[P] Very froceful attack with medium acidity, a great deal of tannines, not
coarse but very dominating, giving place to dark cherries, cherry pits ...
very good length.

oVERALL IMPRESSION: tHE VERY EASILY APPROACHABLE FRUITYNESS OF THIS WINE A
FEW YEARS BACK HAS NOW GONE ENTIRELY. fOR SOME REASON, gRENACHE IS
DOMINATING THE IMPRESSION TODAY (IT CONTAINS ONLY C 15 % g) while the
Mourvedre is hardly approachable. Paradoxically it appears younger and more
closed than the first time I posted my notes on it. Happily, I have several
bottles of earlier and later vintages, so I´ll be able to follow it for some
years.

Thanks for the notes, Nils (not that I have any of it). I'm still
sitting on several bottles of the '99 (just now beginning to shine IMO)
and recently purchased two bottles of the '01 at Kermit Lynch's retail
emporium -- any thoughts from you or Mike on this one? I expect that
Baby Andrew will be the likely beneficiary by the time it reaches
maturity, but perhaps I'm just being maudlin ;-)

Here today, gone Mourvedre,
Mark Lipton

"Mike Tommasi" skrev i meddelandet
...
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:55:39 -0800, Mark Lipton
wrote:

Nils Gustaf Lindgren wrote:
Hello;
[C] Very purple, very dark.
[N] Starts with very faint whiff of anise, then, fiery, dark fruity,
very
faint notes of maturity, cherry pits and blackberries.
[P] Very froceful attack with medium acidity, a great deal of tannines,
not
coarse but very dominating, giving place to dark cherries, cherry pits
...
very good length.

oVERALL IMPRESSION: tHE VERY EASILY APPROACHABLE FRUITYNESS OF THIS WINE
A
FEW YEARS BACK HAS NOW GONE ENTIRELY. fOR SOME REASON, gRENACHE IS
DOMINATING THE IMPRESSION TODAY (IT CONTAINS ONLY C 15 % g) while the
Mourvedre is hardly approachable. Paradoxically it appears younger and
more
closed than the first time I posted my notes on it. Happily, I have
several
bottles of earlier and later vintages, so I´ll be able to follow it for
some
years.

Thanks for the notes, Nils (not that I have any of it). I'm still
sitting on several bottles of the '99 (just now beginning to shine IMO)
and recently purchased two bottles of the '01 at Kermit Lynch's retail
emporium -- any thoughts from you or Mike on this one? I expect that
Baby Andrew will be the likely beneficiary by the time it reaches
maturity, but perhaps I'm just being maudlin ;-)

Here today, gone Mourvedre,

Dumb phase, typical of Bandol, give it 5 more years. It's one of those
wines that you either drink young or keep a long time.

I am less enthusiastic about Gros Nore ever since I started drinking
Tour du Bon (also Kermit's wine). Next time go see Agnes and Antoine
and try it out.

Also, Tempier has made a serious comeback (another Kermit wine) with
Daniel Ravier at the helm it has gone back to its past glory, although
I have experienced some serious reductive problems on the 98-99s the
new millennium seems to be free from these crises.

Another tip, try La Suffrene, excellent, and you will see changes in J
P Gaussen, now that Mireille has taken over these great elegant wines
weem to be even more approachable.

Nils, I'll try find an old one for Easter for us. Mark, I'll try to
fly through SFO next june and bring you a couple.

We are looking forward to that. We will bring a Mosel Riesling `89 and som
fizz from ´88 ... Easter looks good this year ...

Cheers

Nils Gustaf