Variety: Blend, around 80% Grenache
Region: Côtes du Rhône
Country: France
Year: 2011
Price: $8.95
Winery Review: "Intensely spicy and precise, with lively red berry flavors and a hint of black pepper. The Grenache, which makes up the majority of the wine, is deeper and more powerful, offering cherry and black raspberry qualities lifted by zesty minerality." Vintage Cellar wine notes
My Review: Skating on the Red-Ruby border, this wine screamed strawberrieys, raspberries, and blackberries. Bone dry with a little higher alcohol than I'd like but the puckering tannic component was rather tame with a spicy, peppery kick to start the after taste. Plenty going on in this complex wine, almost as much as its tongue twisting name. The heaviest body of all the wines today, I embraced all the flavors and earth tones.
I sampled the wine without food.
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