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The Luberon appellation ranks among one of the most sun-drenched regions in France with approximately 2,600 hours of sun per year. The presence of vines in the Luberon goes back to antiquity. Read More...
The Romans planted these vines in particular in the Pays d'Aigues region, and then in the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, the wine-growing areas spread widely, especially to the north of the Petit Luberon.
The development of the vineyards increased at the end of the 19th century and subsequently between the two wars. At the beginning of the 70s the winegrowers of the Appellation, who were conscious of the need to modernize, undertook major works. Their efforts were crowned with success in 1988 when the Cotes du Luberon obtained the Appellation of Controlled Origin. Today, we call it simply "Lubéron"...
This wine is a blend of Grenache Blanc, Vermentino, Ugni Blanc and Roussanne. The color is pale, with green and yellow tints. The nose has aromas of white blossom, lemons and exotic fruits. On the palate there is good balance between the freshness and roundness, with a great length. The wine is aged on fine lees in vats without malolactic fermentation.
The development of the vineyards increased at the end of the 19th century and subsequently between the two wars. At the beginning of the 70s the winegrowers of the Appellation, who were conscious of the need to modernize, undertook major works. Their efforts were crowned with success in 1988 when the Cotes du Luberon obtained the Appellation of Controlled Origin. Today, we call it simply "Lubéron"...
This wine is a blend of Grenache Blanc, Vermentino, Ugni Blanc and Roussanne. The color is pale, with green and yellow tints. The nose has aromas of white blossom, lemons and exotic fruits. On the palate there is good balance between the freshness and roundness, with a great length. The wine is aged on fine lees in vats without malolactic fermentation.
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This is a fun-yet-simple everyday quaffer that can fitthe bill for a multitude of eating or appetizing agendas.A blend of Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, and Cinsault, thenose is loaded Read More...
with bright red fruits (raspberry fruit roll-up),a touch of licorice and just a hint of spicy pepper whichleads to a palate reflecting the same forward fruit and alight, underlying brace of acidity. As Robert Parker states,“This is consistently a top value pick.” We concur! Goodwith game, hearty stews, simple bbq fare.
$26.98
Axel Prufer was born and raised in East Germany but moved to France as a young man to take up a career in wine making.He owns several small plots of vines in the high mountains behind Read More...
Beziers in France's Languedoc region.He produces delicious wines naturally with as little intervention as possible - many of his wines have no added sulphur. Fou du Roi (the mad king) is a blend of 30% of each of Grenache Noir, Cinsault and Carignan and 10% of Cabernet Sauvignon and weighs in at only 12% alcohol. It displays cherry on the nose and has an elegance and vibrancy that is very appealing. It has good tannin structure which will help as it ages and the finish is long, clean and lively. Definitely one for those who want to explore the complexity of natural wines.
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A blend of Grenache, Syrah, and assorted Bordeaux varietals
2011 is the first vintage of this French red wine sourced from some of the finest locations throughout France. Read More...
2011 is the first vintage of this French red wine sourced from some of the finest locations throughout France. Read More...
Grenache from the Roussillon, Syrah from the Rhone, and assorted Bordeaux varietals are sensibly blended in an original style that showcases the best of what this historic land has to offer. During months of travel throughout storied growing appellations, winemaker Dave Phinney was able to secure prized vineyard sites to realize his objective. Utilizing a carte blanche approach and forgoing tradition, a powerful and balanced wine emerged that justly pays homage to the country of France.
WINEMAKER NOTES - Opaque with ruby accents, the wine is intensely perfumed with aromas of vivid wild berry, warm spice, plum, kirsch, lavender and subtle oak nuances. The entry is juicy and penetrating with rich flavors of ripe blackberry, racy currant and blueberry that generously coat the palate. Easy drinking, the finish is long and clean with just the right amount of polished tannins to keep the fruit in focus.
WINEMAKER NOTES - Opaque with ruby accents, the wine is intensely perfumed with aromas of vivid wild berry, warm spice, plum, kirsch, lavender and subtle oak nuances. The entry is juicy and penetrating with rich flavors of ripe blackberry, racy currant and blueberry that generously coat the palate. Easy drinking, the finish is long and clean with just the right amount of polished tannins to keep the fruit in focus.
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ROBERT PARKER 90-93 POINTS - "The outrageously complex, dense purple-hued 2009 Costieres de Nimes Lou Coucardie is fashioned from a blend of 60% Mourvedre, 30% Read More...
Grenache and 10% Syrah aged in French oak on its lees for at least 12 months. The most limited offering, its blue/purple color is followed by aromas of toast, white chocolate, bay leaf, black currants, blackberries and a hint of coffee. This full-bodied, deep wine admirably demonstrates the potential of Mourvedre in the Costieres de Nimes. It should drink well for a decade or more.
Costieres de Nimes is a treasure-trove for value hunters. Moreover, there are a lot of high quality vignerons and domaines in that sun-drenched, Mistral-blown appellation just south of Chateauneuf du Pape. Michel Gassier is one of the stars of this appellation and he makes a number of cuvees that all merit attention."
Costieres de Nimes is a treasure-trove for value hunters. Moreover, there are a lot of high quality vignerons and domaines in that sun-drenched, Mistral-blown appellation just south of Chateauneuf du Pape. Michel Gassier is one of the stars of this appellation and he makes a number of cuvees that all merit attention."
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Mas des Bressades is considered by many to be the best quality estate in the Nîmes Region, and many regular shoppers in our French section will be familiar with the label. The property Read More...
sits on the Western edge of the Rhône River and is carpeted with the same sort “galets” stones found 35 miles to the North in Châteuneuf-du-Pape. This white blend shows rich apricot, tangerine, and marmalade with a subtle nuttiness and all the power that Roussanne can offer.
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This delious little Counoise comes from the same vinyard (VIGNOBLE DE LA RAMIERE) as Domaine Monpertuis' Cotes du Rhone. This little gem, made from an obscure grape variety by a great Read More...
traditional producer of Chateauneuf du Pape, shows that great values are still available in France! Ripe, plummy fruit with a hint of earth and spice. Clean, pure, and delicious.
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Winemaker Laurent Miquel produces this Syrah from mature, naturally low-yielding vines at his family estate high in the hills of the Languedoc, South of France. Vines are planted Read More...
in the optimum North-South (hence Nord Sud) orientation, meaning that the grapes are exposed to the gentle warmth of the morning and evening rays but protected from the burning effects of the midday sun. Laurent originally qualified as a mechanical engineer and received a masters degree in quality management from Leeds University until the passion of his father and the call of the grapes reached him. While wines from the Languedoc traditionally have been more about volume, quenching the thirst of the working class over the last century, Miquel believes, like his father before him did, that the land and terroir show potential for better, high quality wines. With bottlings like this, somehow we think others will start to share their belief.
The nose is rich, fruit-laden and earthy, with notes of black plum, cherry and tapenade leading to a layer of spice and earth and a touch of cassis-- seriously good nose. In the mouth, sweet raspberry and mixed berry fruits meld with pepper spice, minerality and a good dose of acidity, leading to a brief but enjoyable finish. Very much in balance, this one drinks great solo but will bolster many meals, from BBQ to spring lamb, roast beef to aged cheeses.
The nose is rich, fruit-laden and earthy, with notes of black plum, cherry and tapenade leading to a layer of spice and earth and a touch of cassis-- seriously good nose. In the mouth, sweet raspberry and mixed berry fruits meld with pepper spice, minerality and a good dose of acidity, leading to a brief but enjoyable finish. Very much in balance, this one drinks great solo but will bolster many meals, from BBQ to spring lamb, roast beef to aged cheeses.
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WINE ADVOCATE 92 POINTS - "The Pas de l’Escalette 2008 Les Clapas white – as usual, a blend of Carignan Blanc, Grenache Blanc, and Terret Bourret – Read More...
is possessed of striking salinity; a chalk-and-chicken stock undertone reminiscent of Chablis; and a positively shimmering sense of interactive, crystalline, stony mineral character playing against bright lemon and grapefruit, the whole tinged with bittersweet nuttiness and wreathed in musky, narcissus-like perfume. This remarkable wine shows no indication of slowing down over the next several years – although, it exhibits a faintly Jura-like sense of piquancy which the 2010 also exhibited from barrel and which some tasters may associate with oxidation."
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WINE ADVOCATE 93 POINTS - "Puech-Haut’s new, all-Mourvedre bottling 2009 Coteaux du Languedoc Saint-Drezery Bosc Negre strikes me as supporting the Read More...
reasonable hypothesis that this grape is especially well-suited to an expressive performance if one’s going to let one’s fruit ascend to 15% alcohol. Plum preserves and chocolate laced with bay and brown spices make for a head-turning nose, and are joined by roasted red meat character on a sumptuous, fine-grained, yet persistently juicy palate. Whereas the corresponding Recantou and Cante Lebre bottlings tended toward the confectionary, there is a sense of freshness as well as transparency to carnal and stonily mineral elements to the rich fruit on display here. And whereas a certain superficial note of toasted oak also crept into the aforementioned bottlings, here any such impression is integrated to the point of background enhancement, and the wine finishes with sappy, energetic persistence, without any impression of heat or drying. This received more frequent racking (including rack-and-return during fermentation) than the other Puech-Haut 2009s so as to ward-off reduction and enhance textural richness, and it has worked. Cambie maintains that “at the beginning of its elevage, this was quite introverted … but then, Bandol, too, often needs a long elevage. Like Grenache, Mourvedre is less forgiving in the cellar than is Syrah, but in the end, you have a wine of more fat yet more elegance.” I can’t disagree, and it will be fascinating to follow this beauty over the next decade or so, especially in comparison with certain of the more flamboyant Bandols or Mourvedre-heavy Chateauneufs."
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WINE ADVOCATE 91 POINTS - "Puech-Haut’s 2009 Coteaux du Languedoc Saint-Drezery Quercus – named for a prominent oak tree at this spot in their vineyards, Read More...
not for oak employed in elevage – represents their exploration of pure Grenache, vinified without de-stemming. Violet and rose petal mingle with scents of strawberry and black raspberry preserves, whose sweet juices richly and caressingly coat the palate, tinged with tamarind and licorice and underlain by a saliva-inducing impression of salted roast meat pan drippings such as I would more have expected from a Syrah- or Mourvedre-dominated cuvee. What’s more, there is a faintly but insistently tart edge to the berries here that offers a sense of excitation. That said, these virtues have to work against considerable sense of alcoholic heat in an otherwise luxuriant finish, even though we’re dealing here with a grape in general notoriously welcoming of high must weights. It should be fascinating to see how this develops over the next several years, but I’m not going to try to handicap it beyond then until I see for myself."
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WINE ADVOCATE 88-90+ POINTS:"A blend of 80% Grenache and 20% Syrah, the 2010 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Rasteau reveals the appellation’s chocolaty, rustic character. Read More...
It was completely destemmed and the practice of pigeage was utilized during the fermentation. This big wine needs to shed some of its tannin. Closed and dense with lots of minerality as well as inky fruit, give it 3-4 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 15 years."
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Non Vintage Grenache : Solera from 1999 to 2010
Fermented and aged in vat - 100% Grenache
Little James is at Saint Cosme the wine of freedom. Our Solera is getting more Read More...
Fermented and aged in vat - 100% Grenache
Little James is at Saint Cosme the wine of freedom. Our Solera is getting more Read More...
and more complexity year after year. When we add the current vintage, the solera gains a new element without changing the style...This wine recalls the ancient times when the wine merchants would make wines having only one target : the pleasure. Blending several vintages is considered being a great quality tradition in Champagne. I think it works exactly the same for a great Grenache. The 2011 bottling will be composed with 50% of 2010 along with 50% from all the vintages
back to 1999.
Cherry, oriental spices, lavender, strawberry.
back to 1999.
Cherry, oriental spices, lavender, strawberry.
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