2011 The Wine Society The Society's Côtes de Bordeaux
Posted: 23:51 Sun 21 Sep 2014
This Côtes de Bordeaux is described as an intermediate wine between The Society's Claret and the Exhibition range. It's £2.45 more a bottle than the former, at £8.95 a pop.
Decanted about 3 hours. A dark purple core, about 80%, but with a very broad pale pink rim. Not a distinctive nose; subdued, even with work. Slightly beefy, slightly leathery, but very faint.
Dry entry. Drier mid-palate. Very dry finish. Everything else is rather hidden behind the tannin. There is spicy leather but it's a little strange, a little medicinal; the acid and the tannins are disjointed; the fruit almost not there.
Not really sure that this is better than The Society's Claret.
Decanted about 3 hours. A dark purple core, about 80%, but with a very broad pale pink rim. Not a distinctive nose; subdued, even with work. Slightly beefy, slightly leathery, but very faint.
Dry entry. Drier mid-palate. Very dry finish. Everything else is rather hidden behind the tannin. There is spicy leather but it's a little strange, a little medicinal; the acid and the tannins are disjointed; the fruit almost not there.
Not really sure that this is better than The Society's Claret.