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Roc de Cambes
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2023
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Concentrated, round, and juicy, with depth, lift, energy, and vibrance which allows the layers of dark, red berries, spice, and herbs to shine. The finish displays the sweetness, as well as the brightness in the fruit in the mid-palate, which carries all the way though to the chewy, red berry finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 2,466 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Deeply colored, the nose is packed with blackberries, plums, flowers, savory herbs, cigar box and espresso. Earthy, meaty, chewy, sweet, red it fruits, savory herbs and spice fill the medium-bodied mid-palate and vibrant finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. ABV 15% 3.8 pH. Drink from 2026-2040. 93-95 Pts. 4,622 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Cigar wrapper, forest floor, spicy, leafy, savory red berries, and a strong dose of crushed stone in the nose and on the palate sets you up for the endnote which finishes with salty tannins and earthy, leafy, fresh, vibrant red fruits. Drink from 2023-2037. 91-93 2,767 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Dark garnet in color, the wine sports a complex nose of espresso, spice box, forest leaf, tobacco leaf and dark red pit fruits. Sweet and savory, spicy and fresh, with dusty tannins and plenty of ripe, earthy, salty fruits on the palate and in the finish, this character filled wine has length and complexity. 91-93 Pts 4,065 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Full-bodied, concentrated, earthy and cherry-filled with an herbal nuance and complexity, the wine is lively, wild and fruity with forest floor and fresh red fruits in the finish. 90-92 Pts 6,342 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
The hint of chocolate, smoke, licorice, old wood, and black cherry come alive this year. The fruit has a wildness to it along with sweetness, freshness and purity. The energetic, lusty finish wraps everything nicely. 4,495 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Wild black cherries, truffle, tobacco, smoke and licorice on the nose gets your focus. Full-bodied, lusty, round and juicy, with an earthy accent to the fruits, this will be best with at least 7-9 years of age. 92-94 Pts 5,902 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Wet soil, tobacco, truffle and black raspberries are found on the nose and on the palate. The wine is juicy, bright and fruity with herbal complexities in an earthy finish. 3,986 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Earthy, truffle, licorice, salt, brioche and black cherries open the nose. Full bodied, with fresh, cherries, the wine is concentrated, full bodied, and offers something wild and refined at the same moment. The finish is fruity, earthy and juicy. 5,544 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Wet earth, spearmint, licorice, cocoa and plums smell and taste great. The wine is silky, polished and rich, there is volume and freshness that drives home the fruity qualities in the finish. This is the best Roc de Cambes ever produced. 5,722 Views Tasted May 21, 2018Spicy, mineral driven, earthy, dark berry focused nose with a structured, full bodied, powerful, concentrated, fresh, tannic wine. This definitely needs time in the cellar to be fun to drink. 5,100 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Picked between October 20 and October 26, the wine delivers an earthy, black cherry, round experience that ends with a spicy, blackberry finish. 89-91 Pts 4,221 Views Tasted May 1, 2015 |
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2013
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Wild, candied red berries served in an open style, with a blast of cherry in the finish. This will drink well and offer pleasure early. 87-89 Pts 4,264 Views Tasted May 1, 2014 |
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2012
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Sauvignon produced a wine with earthy plums, spice and sweet, tart cherries in the finish. 87-89 Pts 4,403 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Distinct aromas of truffle adds to the plum and stone personality in this open, medium bodied, ready to drink wine. 2,232 Views Tasted May 21, 201470% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Cabernet Franc open to leafy, blackberry, coffee and earth aromas. This interesting wine ends with an earthy, herbal, black cherry finish. 88-89 Pts 2,536 Views Tasted Apr 20, 2012 |
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2010
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
The wine offers minerality, truffle, blackberries and wet earth scents, with good density and a spicy, fennel, black raspberry filled finish. 4,378 Views Tasted May 8, 2013Roc des Cambes 75% Merlot 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Merlot produced a medium bodied, soft textured wine filled earth, anise, black cherry and smoke. The vineyards are slowly being replanted as the Cabernet Sauvignon is being replaced by Merlot. 88-90 Pts 5,106 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2011 |
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2009
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Coffee, cocoa, truffle, black cherry and stone, medium body and a soft, forward, sweet, red cherry finish. 3,954 Views Tasted May 9, 2012 |
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2008
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
08 Roc des Cambes (Cotes de Bourg) is medium bodied, made from 65% merlot, 17.5% cabernet franc, and the remainder cabernet sauvignon. It has ample dried cherry and cassis flavors in the mouth, with some dryness in the finish. 87-90 Pts 4,379 Views Tasted Aug 1, 2009 |
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2006
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Full bodied, earthy, still on the young side, with ripe, juicy, fresh, crisp, dark plums, black cherry, forest floor and truffle notes. Just starting to open, an hour or so in the decanter should add a lot to the wine. 4,181 Views Tasted Nov 9, 2016 |
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2005
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Peppery, earthy, truffle and tobacco scents in the nose with a stony, earthy, cherry driven character, this is ready to drink. 90 Pts 4,609 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2015Nice wine, a little rustic in its tannins, but offering a lot of vanilla, blackberry, black raspberry, earth and spicy charm that softens with air. Drinking well today, it might gain a bit more complexity with age, but there is no reason not to pop a cork today. 3,553 Views Tasted Nov 29, 2013 |
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2003
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Like opening a jar of truffles and tasting ripe cherries, this was quite a nice surprise. 4,543 Views Tasted Dec 18, 2013 |
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2000
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Fully mature and on the downhill slide, there is still complexity in the earthy, tobacco, oceanic nuances that blend perfectly with the ripe cherries. A little bit rustic, but still charming, the wine needs consumption. 3,848 Views Tasted Dec 19, 2017 |
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1994
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Earthy, with a distinctive truffle, tobacco and olive drenched nose, the rustically styled wine showed much younger than its true age. Still, this is a not a wine I'd hold for further development. 2,785 Views Tasted Jul 6, 2015 |
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1990
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Fully mature, the wine is more interesting with its earthy, tobacco, leaf, cherry, forest and cigar aromas than on the medium bodied, earthy spicy, red plum palate. If you are holding a bottle for further evolution, you are better off popping a cork, that waiting any longer. 3,537 Views Tasted Nov 14, 2016 |
