WTN: Airport Hotel Wine (2005 Guigal CdR)

2005 Guigal Cotes du Rhone. 13% abv.

Dark garnet. Whiff of cherries and smoke on the nose. Pleasant, but with minimal tannins and a short finish. I'd like to try it with food sometime as I bet it would be fairly food-friendly.

Easy enough to drink out of the plastic hotel tumbler, though.

Thanks for the note Cynthia, the tumbler reference made me laugh quite a bit.

If you're in chat later on today pass on my apologies for my absence to the crew - I'm heading down to the coast for my first spot of fishing since my fall and onset of the balance disorder. Hope to catch up with you all at Sunday's session.

Hope the big move is progressing well.

edited to allay the following poster's fears that I'm not the full quid.

Cynthia

Not sure what the previous post meant but trust you do!

Guigal CdR and CNP are always reliable - and never out of place in a hotel plastic cup.

They are really solid wines at reasonable prices year after year

[Jenise]

They are really solid wines at reasonable prices year after year

Would agree based on the Guigal CdR's I knew (and bought virtually every year) in the 90's, but the 2000's have been insanely inconsistent. The lack of the guiding force that was once there has been all too apparent, though Cynthia's wine sounds (at last) like typical CdR.

2005 Guigal Cotes du Rhone. 13% abv.

Dark garnet. Whiff of cherries and smoke on the nose. Pleasant, but with minimal tannins and a short finish. I'd like to try it with food sometime as I bet it would be fairly food-friendly.

Easy enough to drink out of the plastic hotel tumbler, though.

LOL!! I am put in mind of a bottle of '85 Guigal CdR consumed out of glass motel tumblers in South Dakota as Jean and I transported our worldly possessions (including two cases of wine) cross-country in '88. I've never been a big fan of Guigal's negoce bottlings, but you can do a lot worse, too, especially when overnighting outside of the Badlands

I hope all is well,
Mark Lipton

[David M. Bueker]

I have always wondered why Guigal CdR didn't show up on more restaurant & hotel bar wine lists. It's not greta, but it's reliably good & I would order it almost without fail to avoid disappointment.

The problem with Guigal CdR is the incredible inconsistency. I've always assumed they made several differnt "batches" in a given vintage. Some bottles taste so different from others (of the same vintage) that you wonder if its the same wine.

Tom T.