85
points
Domaine du Mont Saint-Jean 2000 Aleatico (Vin de Pays de l'Ile de Beaute)
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$8
This unique wine from Corsica is aromatic, with very ripe fruit (orange, even apricot) aromas. Similar flavors follow on the palate, but the light-mid weight wine is (attractively) drier than expected. Finishes with good length and enough slightly drying tannins to suggest it will last a year or two. A good foil for Mediterranean seafood dishes.
— M.M.
(2/1/2002)
83
points
Domaine du Mont Saint-Jean 1999 Merlot (Vin de Pays de l'Ile de Beaute)
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$9
Plenty of barnyard-earth aromas, plus spices and tree bark, on the nose—a good thing—but the palate and finish shows nothing but wood and wood-derived flavors
— D.T.
(2/1/2002)