The SSL offered its fruit forward bouquet immediately where the ST was far tighter and unyielding
This is a very good wine
Crafted entirely out of paper
Subsequent notes on this wine from three years ago
it's a winner
Domaine d'Aupilhac, Mont Baudile, Le Carignan 1999 Southern Rhone The SSL offered its fruitInto 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,