Chateau du Cedre, Cahors, Cedre, Heritage 2004 The grapes are 90% Malbec and 10% Merlot. The nose combines the rugged side of wine-love, with horse blanket, cheese and ripe berry fruit. In the mouth the wine is quite tannic and strongly reminiscent of the horse, certainly too much so for many drinkers. This is the negociant wine from the famous estate. Eleve et mis en bouteille a Vire-sur-Lot 13% $10.99 at Bottle Barn
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Acorn Allegrini Atlas Peak Balletto Benziger Blandy's Bodega Navarro Correas Burgans Chronicle d'Arenberg Domaine Carneros Domaine de la Mordoree Dow's Dr. Loosen Fonseca Foppiano Foxen Gaston Riviere Glen Ellen Innocent Bystander Kendall-Jackson Korbel Madeira Wine Company Martin Codax Masi Merryvale Mulderbosch Napa Cellars Navarro Vineyards Noceto Paul Hobbs Reynoso Roederer Estate Ruggeri Sawyer Cellars Sbragia Shed Horn Six Sigma Winery Sonoma State Wine Business Institute St. James Trinchero Winery Vietti Wildhurst William Fevre Wilson Winery
Ditto on the tannins, mouthcoating and chalky. Blackfruit, licorice and brett. I see you’ve been exploring in southeast France. I’ll be trying a few of the wines you noted in the near future.
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Hi AJ, Yes, this wine is just too rustic for most consumers of New World wine. What is disappointing is that it doesn’t have to be such a brett bomb. Cedre has a great reputation but this wine is not in that league.
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Check out the explication of brett by following the link above to De Long’s Wine Info. It’s an excellent treatment of a complex subject – the love, hate and shades in between of brettanomyces.
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