ON-626325 BC-129999 QC-10293169

Osoyoos Larose Le Grand Vin 2012, BC VQA Okanagan Valley

Red Blend Red Blend
British Columbia, Canada

$53.95 (626325)

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90 pts
9
November 26, 2016

Critic Reviews (8)

Sara d'Amato
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Sara d'Amato

Still dark and in the dark, this broody blend is only pre-teen. A great deal yet to come with firm tannins and an...

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Michael Godel
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Michael Godel

It takes less than two seconds to recognize the level of quality in Le Grand Vin. There is a sense of balance and...

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Anthony Gismondi
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Anthony Gismondi

One of the best young Osoyoos Larose we have tasted. The blend is 50/24/13/9/4 merlot, cabernet sauvignon, petit...

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David Lawrason
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David Lawrason

The 2012 is perhaps my favourite vintage of Le Grand Vin to date. It is a big, deeply ruby-black shaded blend based...

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Nadia  Fournier
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Nadia Fournier

I had not been thrilled when I tasted this 2012 year-end 2015. It seemed through an adolescent crisis. Six months...

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John Szabo, MS
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John Szabo, MS

A curiously green and weedy, and also oaky and roasted vintage for Osoyoos Larose, which comes across as hard and...

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Marc Chapleau
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Marc Chapleau

Very monolithic, Osoyoos. Very wooded, very all of a piece and no apparent charm. For now, at least. Because there is...

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Bill Zacharkiw
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Bill Zacharkiw

More powerful than the brilliant 2011 in every respect. Fruit and tannin seem a touch riper, the oak a touch more...

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David Brodati, DipWSET
David Brodati, DipWSET

Still quite deep ruby in colour, although some garnet tinges appearing at the edges. Some greenness on the nose, with pot pourri, dried red fruit, spice and oak aromas of chocolate and vanillin. The palate is about savoriness, as the fruit dries and fades at this point. Tobacco, more oak and spice and a soy like quality. Tannins are still grainy. Decent concentration, balance and length, but there's something off-kilter about it. Somehow it hasn't knitted together and I'm not sure it ever will. Agree with Szabo on this one. June 2020.

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