. Ah the black wines of Cahors....being as it is the unofficial 'M' month (do you know there is no word in the English language that rhymes with month? I fixed that by inventing the new word 'sponth' which means 'creating a new word for one where there is currently no rhyme'). The wine is made from 90% malbec (or Cot as it is locally known) and 10% tannat. Two tannic buggers in the same bottle. Tannins are good for you though. That is why I look so young.
Dark purple. Smell like a bag of licorice allsorts, then blackberry, cassis, smoke and some lovely Bordeaux style cedar oak. On the palate a very dense tannic wine. Mouthcoating ripe tannins. Really quite something those tannins. There are flavours of blackberry, briar, earth and licorice that culminate in a long tannic palate numbing blackberry finish. This is quite excellent.
Rated : 92 Points
Tasted : Mar06
Alcohol : 13.5%
Price : $39.99
Closure : Cork
Drink : 2006 - 2011
Source : Not telling till I buy some more.
I love this wine, a real sense of place to it and for want of a better word, mystery ie. not just grape juice with blackcurrant. I think it's decent value at $40 but how lucky would you be drinking this at just over A$20! This is the price in France and I still can't accept the upcharge for imports in Aus.
andyc wrote:I love this wine, a real sense of place to it and for want of a better word, mystery ie. not just grape juice with blackcurrant. I think it's decent value at $40 but how lucky would you be drinking this at just over A$20! This is the price in France and I still can't accept the upcharge for imports in Aus.
Clearly you are a man of taste...and yes this is a wine that expresses its terroir (or is that terrior as many people spell it...) I think I may be able to bargain them down on a bulk purchase. I would be happy at $30 as it is not exactly flying off the shelves..current release being the 2002...
Yep, just had the 02 of this a couple of weeks back and loved it. Quite New World in style too compared to others I have had - fruit upfront and not particularly tannic. First time ever for me on this particular wine although I was hooked on Cahors a while back by a 1990 Pech de Jammes in early 1998. Love a decent Malbec (or majority blend in this case!). Just stonking wines from that region, great value (well in France anyway!) and hard to find here, especially in Perth.
