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Chateau d'Aydie

Chateau d'Aydie, Madiran, 1995

By Julian on Sunday, 21/03/2010

Ink-coloured, almost black, smelling of plum jam, eucalyptus and donkey stable and puckering your mouth all over with overwhelmingly rough tannins, here we have a text book Tannat (note the linguistic closeness to "tannin" as well as to "tanning").

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