2005 Margerum M5
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The 2005 M5 is fully mature but delicious, offering nuanced notes of dried herbs, spice box, leather, and ground pepper. It picks up more sweetness with time in the glass, is medium-bodied, layered, and should keep for another couple of years.
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(a Rhone blend incorporating syrah, grenache, mourvedre, cinsault and counoise, plus dashes of a few other odds and ends) Bright red. Vibrant, spicy red berry and cracked pepper on the nose, with a deeper tobacco quality. Fresh and juicy, offering bitter red fruit flavors, very good focus and lightly chewy tannic grip. Gains a bit of sweetness on the finish but this is awfully primal right now. Give it a couple years in the cellar.
A gorgeous blend of Syrah, Mourvedre, Grenache, Cinsault, and Counoise, Margerum’s 2005 M5 is full of fun and character. Its deep plum/ruby color and lovely sweet, smoky, black cherry and herb aromas are accompanied by a medium-bodied wine displaying deep, concentrated flavors that bring to mind an open-air Provencal market. A heck-of-a good value, it can be enjoyed over the next 3-4 years. Tel. (805) 892-9711