juggernt 
Tampa, FL, USA
Wine Labeler
Posts: 3501
 | | 06-25-2004 12:17 PM |
| Name: Concha y Toro "Don Melchor" Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2000
Purchased at: Total Wine
Cost: $17.99
Color: some darker red, but the ambient light was too low
Nose: Crushed berries, a hint of tobacco
Palette: Requisite red fruit, low tannins, modest finish
Comments: I want more muscle from my Cabs, but a decent effort
JuggerRating: 85pts | | | Visit The Butcher Block at http://www.butcherblocktampa.com/ |
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Rothko
Palm Beach
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5724
| | 06-25-2004 01:59 PM |
| That's a great price for Don Melchor. I just bought one for $32.
I thought it was better than an 85 point wine. | | | |
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PourQue
Wine Labeler
Posts: 3518
| | 06-25-2004 02:07 PM |
| Rothko,
I agree, I've had a couple of bottles of this and I think it is a solid 90-91pt wine...not the 94 WS gave it, but still a solid effort. | | | |
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Rothko
Palm Beach
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5724
| | 06-28-2004 02:45 PM |
| PourQue, I agree with your rating. | | | |
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juggernt
Tampa, FL, USA
Wine Labeler
Posts: 3501
| | 07-03-2004 06:36 PM |
| I'll try another bottle. It may have suffered unfairly by comparison to the Vina Montes Alpha that we had just before it. | | | Visit The Butcher Block at http://www.butcherblocktampa.com/ | |
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Rothko
Palm Beach
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5724
| | 07-04-2004 01:24 PM |
| Please post your notes. I'll be curious to see if the second bottle is the same as the other one you tried. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Picker
Posts: 18
| | 08-04-2004 12:39 PM |
| Opened this bottle last night with Seek.
Color: deep purple
Boquet: Cherries and Rhubarb?
Upon tasting after 1 hour of decanting ithis wine was tight, with hints cherries, tobacco, and pencil lead. After about 2-3 hours I found the flavors more approachable with fruit flavors currants, cherries, and firm tannins.
This bottle gets a 90+ points, sorry WS. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 672
| | 12-31-2004 09:05 PM |
| - 2000 Concha y Toro Cabernet Sauvignon Don Melchor Puente Alto - Chile, Maipo, Alto Maipo Valley (12/29/2004)
Tasted at the WIML off-line at Speakeasy Supper Club. I am a long-time fan of the Don Melchor bottling ever since my Chilean colleauge served me the '92 while visiting Santiago in the mid-90s. The 2000 is another solid effort. Spicy black pepper and crisp green bell pepper frame well-structured dark fruits. Should be best from 2006 though 2010. (90 pts.)
Posted from CellarTracker!Cheers, Otis | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts: 12722
| | 12-31-2004 10:12 PM |
| I scored this one 92 pts. I've had it twice now and it doesn't show well until 2 hours plus in the decanter. FWIW. | | | Joe-----Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1371
| | 03-28-2005 02:50 PM |
| Opened as final non-dessert wine at dinner Saturday night. Decanted approximately 3 hours before tasted, this is from recollection as we did not take formal notes.
Quite dark in color, tar, dark fruit and some eucalyptus/menthol. Long finish. Quite a nice wine. While the WS score is a little high in my opinion, definitely a 90+ point wine, 91-92 in my book. | | | |
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Bradley Molzen
VinoCellar.com Admin
Bayonne, NJ
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5097
| | 03-29-2005 03:32 AM |
| Quote:
crisp green bell pepper frame well-structured dark fruits
That's what normally ruins it for me with Chilean cabs... | | | If you drink wine, you get smarter.... | |
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1371
| | 03-29-2005 01:43 PM |
| Personally, I did not get much green bell pepper off of this bottle. | | | |
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PourQue
Wine Labeler
Posts: 3518
| | 03-29-2005 02:36 PM |
| I thought this was a very good bottle, after an hour in the decanter. | | | |
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