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available, tasting scores and notes are by Robert Parker (RP) and taken
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or Stephen Tanzer (ST) from www.wineaccess.com
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Domaine Yves Cheron
A very reliable
domaine, making excellent
wines for the price!
Highly Recommended |
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75cl |
Côtes du Rhone Rouge
'Les Dentelles'
Yves Cheron
RP/Jeb Dunnuck -
I was blown away by the 2015
Côtes du Rhône Yves Cheron les Dentelles. Made from 65% Grenache and 35%
Syrah aged all in cement, it’s a big, rich, full-bodied beauty that’s
loaded with notions of kirsch, blackberries, toasted spices and white
pepper. Deep, rich, concentrated and impeccably balanced, it’s
the real deal. |
2015 |
£12.00 |
RP/JD92
2017-26 |
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Chateau Pesquie
RP - Easily one of
my favourite estates from the up-and-coming Ventoux region, Chateau
Pesquie is run by the talented brothers, Alexandre & Frederic Chaudiere.
The wines sell for a song, yet always deliver high-quality, loads of
character and impeccably made profiles. |
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75cl |
Cuvee des Terrasses
Chateau Pesquie
Cotes du Ventoux Rouge
RP -
In the same mould and an
awesome value year in and year out, the 2012 Cotes du Ventoux
Cuvee des Terrasses is a blend of 70% Grenache (60-year-old vines) and 30%
Syrah (30+-year-old vines) that was aged two-thirds in concrete (and some
in stainless steel) and one-third in older oak.
Made from a blend of different terroirs on the estate and coming from
hillside vineyards lying between 840-930 feet in elevation, it offers
up a gorgeously pure, supple and seamless profile with kirsch and
berry-styled fruit, licorice and spring flower-like qualities all emerging
from the glass.
Elegant, forward and delicious, it gains in stature in the glass, is
ridiculously textured from such an inexpensive wine, and has sweet tannin
emerging on the finish. |
2012 |
£14.00 |
RP92
2014-20Great Value
- Highly Recommended |
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Domaine de la Charbonniere
A top CNDP
grower, with 10 acres in Vacqueyras - the latter are great value wines! |
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43 |
75cl |
Vacqueyras
Domaine de la Charbonniere
RP - The 2010 Vacqueyras
offers lots of cedary, loamy soil notes interwoven with black cherry jam
and black currants. Medium to full-bodied with supple tannins and
admirable purity as well as intensity, it should drink well for a
decade. |
2010 |
£15.00 |
RP91
2011-21 |
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Domaine de Bila Haut de Roussillon
Michel Chapoutier
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49 |
75cl |
Haut
Cotes de Roussillon Villages
Latour de France
OCCULTUM LAPIDEM
M. Chapoutier
RP -
One of the more polished, sexy examples of the cuvee, the 2015 Côtes du
Roussillon Villages Latour de France Occultum Lapidem checks in as a
blend of 50% Syrah, 40% Grenache and the balance Carignan and Mourvèdre,
aged all in concrete tanks. It boasts killer notes of black raspberries,
cassis, pepper and liquorice, with just a hint of chocolate appearing
with time in the glass.
This medium to full-bodied, layered and beautifully textured red is an
incredible value and will be impossible to resist over the coming 4-5
years, and I’m sure it will keep even longer. |
2015 |
£14.00 |
RP94
2017-25BIODYNAMIC Wines!
Great Value and
Quality! |
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Domaine Xavier Vins
Xavier Vignon,
is one of the region’s most talented winemakers with a gift for finding
and vinifying choice plots of vines that result in simply superb wines. |
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39 |
75cl |
Arcane XIX Le Soleil
Cotes du Rhone Village
Domaine Xavier Vins
RP/Joe Czerwinski -
The 2015 Cotes du Rhone
Villages Arcane XVIII Le Soleil is youthfully dark in colour and
fruit-forward, but it also shows softening, silky tannins. It's full
bodied but not overblown, with a sensationally seductive mouthfeel.
Black cherries define the fruit, joined by hints of dark chocolate and
enough garrigue to give it a seriously savoury character despite the
fruit. This is an old-vine blend of 80% Grenache with 10% each Syrah and
Mourvèdre, aged 15 months in one-third new oak, the rest in concrete or
foudre. Maybe the best Côte du Rhône Villages I've ever tasted. |
2015 |
£20.00 |
RP/JC94
2018-27 |
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