2012 Les Aspres, Pierre Cros

Have you meet them? Those older gentlemen that with a strong voice proclaims "it was better before". What "before" is you don´t really get to know, but you sense that it is in a distant past.

Well, count me in.

At least when it comes to this wine. I have loved the wine in the past, especially the 2001 and 2003 vintages (see links below).
I started to salivate when I put the corkscrew in the 2012. And what did I get...

2012 Les Aspres, Pierre Cros
Is it a result of a wine making process or a result from a factory making rubber? The nose is big, blowsy and over the top with notes of raw rubber, melting asphalt, rotting flowers and blackberry jam. Very sweet and with a burning rubber sensation, but sensation is not the word. Assault is a better one.
The taste is sweet, overpowering and very, very concentrated with notes of a blueberry pie, hot asphalt, burning rubber and the kind of liquorice that is the cheapest possibly kind. Long, hot, long, hot, in perpetuum. I guess it would work great as a paint remover. My poor intestines...
53p   (tasted 2017/03)

Previous tasted 2001´s:
http://barolista.blogspot.se/2012/04/easter-syrah-battle-part-i.html

http://barolista.blogspot.se/2014/01/the-results-from-swedish-syrah-jury.html

http://barolista.blogspot.se/2014/08/5-bottles-of-syrah-fizzy-zinfandel.html

http://barolista.blogspot.se/2015/09/a-dear-reunion-2001.html

The 2003 tasted:
2003 - http://barolista.blogspot.se/2012/05/finally-some-wine-2003-domaine-cros.html