Wine Tasting 17: 2000 Dom. Brusset Trad. Le Grand Montmirail

Domaine Brusset is a relatively large producer in Rhone. This wine is from an appelation in Southern Rhone called Gigondas created in 1971. Unlike Northern Rhone, which employs solely Syrah. The wine would probably be a combination of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Carrigane and Cinsault. On the nose, some cherry liqueur or kirsch character popped out mixing with some earthy barnyard but the wine was not giving much. I deliberately aired the wine before tasting but still...more cherry fruit and dry berry/flower characters came out upon tasting. It has a medium to full body followed with some astringency characters like bitter lemon/tangerine. The tannin is sandy, mouth coating and immediately dried out the tongue. The finish is relatively short and leaving my mouth dry. The style is traditional and backward. I fail once again why the both WA and WS rated this wine so high (93 and 94 points respectively) in the past. (87-89 points) rated by Michael Lam of the Beverage Review.

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[Faconinja9999]

Agree with gibbleguts. Your life looks sad.

[gibbleguts]

That's like saying that the only reason people enjoy different cheeses is because they crave the dairy content.

Methinks you haven't had much wine, and are in fact, a rather young man.

[ChristianBolt]

There may be some truth in what you say, but understanding wine takes a great deal of study and tasting. Most wine drinkers I know don't ever get noticebly drunk. I agree there are a great deal of people who like to be snobs about the whole thing.

[Grovemeister]

Wine tasting is the cultured term for alcoholic. Elitists go out, sniff, talk and taste wine, but would they be doing it, if it didn't give them a buzz? Wine tasting gives them the socially-accepted rationalization for their addiction.

[VANTASHTIC]

mate, are you located in Aus?