#dubost

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Paulette Dubost dans “La Règle du Jeu” de Jean Renoir (1939), avril 2025.

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Paulette Dubost et Roland Armontel dans "Le Dolmen Tragique" de Léon Mathot (1948), février 2024.

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Heaven-bound

I don’t know who’s a RUSH fan here, but this is a powerful Rhone/BDX blend showing what Paso is capable of–to varying extents. Dark and concentrated, a nose reflecting deep smoky layers on top of capable fruit. SOOOO much smoky oak, the briar and brine barely able to exude itself above. But fruit is there: rich, tobacco-y leather with very little *lace* unless copious concentration is your idea…

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Du Hast

The oak hits pretty hard on this one. Rich an undiluted in the nose, a creamy vanilla plushness over-shadowing all other nuances to the point of flabbiness. The fruit doesn’t help: distilled, glycerin-y, riduclous ripeness and polish tempting toward oxidized. Pina colada brings all the brown banana and soggy pineapple to bear over Maraschino cherry and applesauce. In the mouth, nothing changes.…

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Reserve Caliente

Flabby-smelling, the taint of oxidation sullying the nose in meaty ways, limp and lifeless. No way at 4 years old this wine exemplifies these sort of nuances. Squished-bug and electrical-fire, the chunky, over-worked cherry flatulent and un-interesting. Tasting it brings more disappointment to the fore-front: ridiculously hot dead berry controls all through the burning swallow. Watery over the…

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Du Hast

This is an odd wine. An extremely flowery, candied nose to it, muddled with black cherry and earthy briar, but that’s all down deep under an effusively sweet bouquet. Nearly opaque–obvious turbidity in a dark-ruby glass. Generous air displays far more saline, saliva, and pickling-spice complexity, but the shrill dessert note plays long and hard. Tasting it levels the playing field a bit, but the…

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Grrrr-anache

Classic medium garnet transparency–a refreshing turn from a LOT of Paso Grenaches: extracted to Syrah-like proportions of density. Meaty, composty nose, round with bruised fruit playing flacidly down along vegetal regions of expression: so much so, it approaches pruney, a toasty dullness lacking fresh berry vigor in fruit and spirit. Vague under the wet newsprint and fall leaf-pile, ripe pear and…

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St. George Protect Us

An extremely interesting red wine–perhaps the first 100% I have had on the blog–pulling sharp contrasts across the palate and not easy to pigeon-hole. Deep glowing dark purple, the edge gradually thinning to bright pink. BBQ-meaty and dense in the nose, vibrant sake-ish round texture flush with crisp berry–plum and green pear–not particularly effusive, with a distinct ripeness lurking. Crazy…

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