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The July 2022 Auction: Part 3
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Estimate: $85
Lightly scuffed labels.
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"The 2011 version of the Barge familyâs CĂ´te Brune is a complete classic in the making, but the wine today is hunkered down behind its structural elements and looking for an extended period of hibernation in the cellar prior to drinking. The youthful bouquet is beautifully complex and traditional in style, offering up a pure constellation of cassis, smoky plums, a touch of pepper, gamebird, black olive, raw cocoa, woodsmoke, plenty of youthful stems and a brilliantly complex base of soil tones. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bdoied, focused and tightly-knit, with a superb core of fruit, great soil signature, ripe, seamlessly integrated tannins and outstanding focus and grip on the youthful, balanced and beautifully promising finish. I would not touch a bottle of the 2011 Domaine Barge CĂ´te Brune for at least another decade, despite the fact that it is so well-balanced that it is really pretty easy to drink in its reticent youth! Great wine in the making."
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"The 2011 version of the Barge familyâs CĂ´te Brune is a complete classic in the making, but the wine today is hunkered down behind its structural elements and looking for an extended period of hibernation in the cellar prior to drinking. The youthful bouquet is beautifully complex and traditional in style, offering up a pure constellation of cassis, smoky plums, a touch of pepper, gamebird, black olive, raw cocoa, woodsmoke, plenty of youthful stems and a brilliantly complex base of soil tones. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bdoied, focused and tightly-knit, with a superb core of fruit, great soil signature, ripe, seamlessly integrated tannins and outstanding focus and grip on the youthful, balanced and beautifully promising finish. I would not touch a bottle of the 2011 Domaine Barge CĂ´te Brune for at least another decade, despite the fact that it is so well-balanced that it is really pretty easy to drink in its reticent youth! Great wine in the making."
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