Crafted entirely out of paper
Subsequent notes on this wine from three years ago
with great balance
This is a very good wine
The SSL offered its fruit forward bouquet immediately where the ST was far tighter and unyielding
Domaine d'Aupilhac, Mont Baudile, Le Carignan 1999 Southern Rhone Crafted entirely out of paperInto neck 90 Points CellarTracker **Saturday Older Wines Day** Beautifully aged 100% Carignan from 60 year old vines, aged in French oak barrels for 20 months. Concentrated and rich, complex, enough freshness left. Doesnt have the length of its youth anymore. Medium+ intense aromas of blackberry, blackcurrant, black plum, blueberry, date, green olive, black pepper, leather, cold coffee, bay leaf. Dry wine, medium acidity, medium and fine tannins,