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The September 2016 Internet-Only Auction Part 4
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Estimate: $65
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"The 2010 Clos de Rochegrès from Château des Jacques is a superb and youthful bottle of Moulin-à-Vent, offering up great purity on both the nose and palate and a proper, 2010 structure that should reward long aging. The superb nose wafts from the glass in a classic mélange of dark berries, black cherries, granite, woodsmoke, a touch of dark chocolate, fresh thyme and a discreet base of cedar. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully balanced, with excellent, nascent complexity, fine mid-palate depth, moderate tannins and a long, tangy and quite youthful finish. This will need four or five years to really reach its apogee and should have no problem continuing to evolve for another twenty years or more. It is a finer and more precise bottle than the Clos du Grand Carquelin, which has a bit more inherent opulence built into it and which will eventually come to the fore when the wine blossoms. Which one you will prefer is a matter of personal preference, as they will both be beautiful and classic examples of Moulin-à-Vent."
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"The 2010 Clos de Rochegrès from Château des Jacques is a superb and youthful bottle of Moulin-à-Vent, offering up great purity on both the nose and palate and a proper, 2010 structure that should reward long aging. The superb nose wafts from the glass in a classic mélange of dark berries, black cherries, granite, woodsmoke, a touch of dark chocolate, fresh thyme and a discreet base of cedar. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully balanced, with excellent, nascent complexity, fine mid-palate depth, moderate tannins and a long, tangy and quite youthful finish. This will need four or five years to really reach its apogee and should have no problem continuing to evolve for another twenty years or more. It is a finer and more precise bottle than the Clos du Grand Carquelin, which has a bit more inherent opulence built into it and which will eventually come to the fore when the wine blossoms. Which one you will prefer is a matter of personal preference, as they will both be beautiful and classic examples of Moulin-à-Vent."
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