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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 15 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by M DU VIN on 9/27/2023 & rated 93 points: Wonderful, rich wine with great fruit and lots of life left. (236 views) | | | Tasted by M DU VIN on 1/16/2023 & rated 93 points: This wine was really humming tonight. Deep, deep color with intense blackberry and cassis fruit. IMO this wine has at least five years of very fine drinking. (470 views) | | | Tasted by Sean Tay on 11/24/2022 & rated 93 points: Pronounced nose intensity with black fruits, toast, graphite. Medium+ acidity, medium+ tannin and long finish. (531 views) | | | Tasted by Lady Chatelaine on 9/12/2022 & rated 91 points: Amazingly round and fresh 16 years later..
Red fruits basket, some smoky hints on the final (could be leather or dried leaves)
A pleasure.. (630 views) | | | Tasted by jkscully on 12/20/2017: This wine needed a few hours with some air exposure, but it came together in a nice way. Dark chocolate and deep-blue berries dominated the palate, but there were also overtones of vanilla and black pepper. On day 3, some woody mushrooms and violet showed up. The brambly fruit was impressive and I don’t think that I’ve experienced such intense fruit from a European wine before. This is clearly a very polished wine, but it was made in an international sytle and I felt that it lacked a sense of French terroir: no garrigue, herbal notes, or any of those characteristics that would make a wine unique or interesting.
Wines without distinctive character are difficult to match perfectly with food (by contrast, I’m remembering how, just recently, I was able to find some brilliant food matches for some $20 bottles of Loire Chenins recently). Having said as much, I think that this wine had about 10 years of life left and might have gained some complexity with some extended bottle ageing. If I had more, I would wait another 5 years to try another bottle.
I found myself recalling the Justin Isosceles that I drank earlier in the year. The palate and alcohol levels (15% for both) were similar, but the Justin was made from Caberenet, which, in my opinion, can reach higher than the Syrah, Mouvedre, Grenache, and Carignan blend in this wine. The Justin Isosceles was about $20 cheaper. In other words, I think I can get better in this style for cheaper. This wine is supposedly about as good as you can do for dry red wines in Roussillon. The quality is high, but I’m not sure that it draws me to the region. (1615 views) | | | Tasted by axisx on 3/13/2013 & rated 91 points: a respectable wine that spent 3 years in oak. i didn't keep exact note. but I remember giving it 90 first, then 91 because it evolved well in glass (2534 views) | | | Tasted by cetsw on 4/23/2010 & rated 90 points: Beautiful deep Crimson color. Nose of ripe cherries and wood. Well balanced taste. Slightly short finish. Perfectly drinkable now, but could probably use 2-3 more years in the bottle. (2812 views) |
| Domaine du Clos des Fées Producer website
The vines were planted with pickaxes, barely touching the layers of parent-limestone, in pockets of pure clay, zigzagging along impressive green oak trees.
The stones were taken out of the vineyards one by one, by hand or pulled by a horse, then patiently and skilfully stacked by generations of wine growers from another era. They worked hard and long hours.
The conditions were so difficult that workers hired to plant the first vines in parts of the vineyard simply gave up. The elders in the village nicknamed the location "little Siberia" as a result.
What exactly does the word «Clos des Fées» ?
In French, a «Clos» is a small parcel of vines surrounded by walls. A Fée is a «mythical being, in general a woman, with magical powers» which she uses with the help of a magic wand. Le Clos des Fees is a vineyard where the fairies would have lived, if they existed. The place is very isolated, beautiful, wild, very romantic which inspired us for the name.
To find out more, please visit the producer's website:
Syrah BlendThe 2018 is 40% Merlot and 60% Syrah.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comLanguedoc Roussillon Inter Sud de France | Vins Languedoc-Roussillon
Wine-Searcher.com: http://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-languedoc-roussillon
Financial Times Article (June 19th 2010 Andrew Jefford):http://bit.ly/bLDytg
Financial Times Article (June 5 2010 Jancis Robinson): http://bit.ly/8ZerX2
David Schildknecht (7th June 2010) Languedoc-Roussillon Best Producers:http://bit.ly/do0LQa Roussillon Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Roussillon |
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