Château Roc de Candale
Saint Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend
St. Émilion, Libournais, Bordeaux, France
$28 at Batch 13 on 14th St. Tasting youngggggg. We'll see if it gets any better with dinner. High acid. All tannin and cranberries. No earth, not much depth.
$28 at Batch 13 on 14th St. Tasting youngggggg. We'll see if it gets any better with dinner. High acid. All tannin and cranberries. No earth, not much depth.
1 person found it helpfulFeb 22nd, 2015Just bought in Paris... Let's see
Just bought in Paris... Let's see
1 person found it helpfulJan 4th, 2014
Very nice Bordeaux wine.
Very nice Bordeaux wine.
1 person found it helpfulJun 7th, 2013
Pretty classic w notes of black cherry, blackberry, licorice, and cedar on the nose. tobacco, more cedar, and lots of herbs join on the palate, w a dusting of cocoa and black pepper. (A touch of pickle juice even though not American Oak.) tannins smooth, acid medium, medium body.
13.5% alch.
#sample
Pretty classic w notes of black cherry, blackberry, licorice, and cedar on the nose. tobacco, more cedar, and lots of herbs join on the palate, w a dusting of cocoa and black pepper. (A touch of pickle juice even though not American Oak.) tannins smooth, acid medium, medium body.
13.5% alch.
#sample
lift, low dry, hints of strawberry, small acidity at the end
lift, low dry, hints of strawberry, small acidity at the end
Mar 29th, 2018
It's Holiday Season here in Morehead City, NC , and I'm at one of my favorite hangs (Promise' Land Market where the vibe is tres local, coastal, grooviness + Christmas) digging some amazing cheeses, olives, almonds and wine.
Firstly, I posted this wine previously, so this is a double tap with some space in between. Remembering my last experience, I decided to aerate pour into a decanter and on-and-off turbo-twirl for a half hour before jumping jumping in for the swim. That was proper, for sure, as doing so moves this wine up a bit, in my mind, mellowing this front-end tannin bomb , eliminating the raspberry and showing its better blue side, plus adding a little finish. My guess is that the cab franc vintage was less than ideal blurring the merlot and unfortunately squelching what could have maybe been St Emi GC elegance. The rest is my previous post: This GC is maybe a little past it's better time (odd). That written, its Merlot centric main grape charged by a cab franc splash and tempered by what seems to me to be plenty of time luxuriating in classic French oak expressing blueberry & vanilla on the nose contrasted by rabbit tobacco (earth connection complimenting country elegance) seems classic St Emi GC.
After that initial nose-hit of earth, spice, blue fruit and vanilla, it starts to slip, as the tannins grab somewhat roughly (perhaps a death grip) in one's front mouth cutting things short and masking the expectation of a rather brilliant nose turning what starts as blueberry and spice to a tannic squeezing raspberry mouth with zero finish - a shame. On t
It's Holiday Season here in Morehead City, NC , and I'm at one of my favorite hangs (Promise' Land Market where the vibe is tres local, coastal, grooviness + Christmas) digging some amazing cheeses, olives, almonds and wine.
Firstly, I posted this wine previously, so this is a double tap with some space in between. Remembering my last experience, I decided to aerate pour into a decanter and on-and-off turbo-twirl for a half hour before jumping jumping in for the swim. That was proper, for sure, as doing so moves this wine up a bit, in my mind, mellowing this front-end tannin bomb , eliminating the raspberry and showing its better blue side, plus adding a little finish. My guess is that the cab franc vintage was less than ideal blurring the merlot and unfortunately squelching what could have maybe been St Emi GC elegance. The rest is my previous post: This GC is maybe a little past it's better time (odd). That written, its Merlot centric main grape charged by a cab franc splash and tempered by what seems to me to be plenty of time luxuriating in classic French oak expressing blueberry & vanilla on the nose contrasted by rabbit tobacco (earth connection complimenting country elegance) seems classic St Emi GC.
After that initial nose-hit of earth, spice, blue fruit and vanilla, it starts to slip, as the tannins grab somewhat roughly (perhaps a death grip) in one's front mouth cutting things short and masking the expectation of a rather brilliant nose turning what starts as blueberry and spice to a tannic squeezing raspberry mouth with zero finish - a shame. On t