Winery - Clautiere
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With all the lush, exotic tropical fruit, vanilla cream and butterscotch flavors, and a honeyed sweetness in the finish, this wine could use more acidity. The lack of it makes it a little cloying.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Too ripe and obvious in fruit, with raisin, currant and black cherry jam flavors, accented with smoky, caramelized oak. Good and rich, but lacks subtlety. Drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
All fruit and little structure. Blasts the palate with blackberries, cherries, chocolate, currant, vanilla and pastry flavors that are functionally sweet. Acidity is soft, emphasizing the glyceriney sweetness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Made with original Port varieties, this is a very sweet wine, with a rich array of milk chocolate, blackberry jam, cassis, cherry pie, butterscotch and vanilla caramel flavors. It’s not an ager, so drink now.
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Clautiere Port - 2004
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is quite a distinctive wine, not quite like anything else out there, which makes you think about it. Dry and creamy, it shows the flavors of dried fruits, such as apricots and peaches, with a streak of fresh green herbs, and a stony, metallic taste, like white chalk. Really notable for its uniqueness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Ripe, slightly sweet and acidic, with tropical fruit, wildflower, apricot, buttered popcorn, spice and smoky flavors. Giving its best now, this wine wants appetizers that are spicy, slightly sweet and crunchy.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Soft, ripe and rustic, with cherry, cola and chocolate flavors that finish with a medicinal, sugary sweetness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Shows its warm country terroir nicely in the well-ripened, jammy cherry, blackberry and mocha fruit flavors and soft texture. Beautiful now, this is one for the near term for its youthful lushness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Almost as sweet as a dessert wine, this Grenache is rich in cherry liqueur flavor, with a finish of melted milk chocolate and root beer. It’s a soft, easy gulper.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s a raisiny, pruny, sugary taste to this wine, and while the official alcohol reading is 14.9%, it tastes hotter than that.
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Clautiere Syrah - 2007
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