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WTN: 2000 J.L. Chave "Mon Coeur"

Brad Ballinger

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Brad Ballinger

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2000 J.L. Chave “Mon Coeur,” Cotes-du-Rhone. This wine was appropriately opened on Valentine’s Day. This was my first experience with the Mon Coeur CdR. And it’s an experience I enjoyed more than Offerus. At the same time, though, one can’t expect the wine to be in the same league as Chave’s Hermitage. This particular wine is for drinking now with a variety of food. It’s full of spice, mushrooms, and berries. It also shows pepper and olive. Moderate acidity. Soft tannins. The wine shows more character and dimension than many other Cotes-du-Rhone wines, but still has the crowd-pleasing capability and versatility that usually are part of why people buy the wine in the first place. The wine was decanted for some chunky sediment immediately before drinking the first class and the integrity remained consistent over a three hour period following.

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John W.

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Had a few bottles of this exact wine last month.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

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Washington, DC

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