Feraud-Brunel and Pegau

Arlequin Wines, San Francisco
Tasted Saturday, August 8, 2009 by drwine2001 with 415 views

Flight 1 - Feraud-Brunel (4 Notes)

  • 2006 Féraud-Brunel Côtes du Rhône Villages

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Villages

    70% Grenache, 30% Syrah. Medium light color. Forward aromas of clove and herbs. Good concentration, lively red fruit with road tar undertone. Very Rhone and excellent value.

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  • 2006 Féraud-Brunel Rasteau

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Rasteau

    75% Grenache, 25% Syrah. Lighter and less depth than the Cotes du Rhone. This also possesses a nice aromatic mix of fruit and herbs. Lighter weight, pretty strawberry fruit, and a touch of licorice. Pretty evanescent, though, and dilute on the finish. For the short term. Not as convincing as the preceding wine which was half the price.

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  • 2005 Féraud-Brunel Vacqueyras

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Vacqueyras

    75% Grenache, 25% Syrah. Medium color with a fading edge. Two bottles tasted since the first was ever so slightly corked. First was very '05 in showing black fruit, an interesting peppery, herbaceous quality, and dry tannins. The second was also quite tannic, but hot, raisiny, and chocolate flavored. Pick your poison, but either way, the balance was not very appealing in either example.

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  • 2006 Féraud-Brunel Châteauneuf-du-Pape

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape

    80% Grenache, 12% Mourvedre, 8% who knows what. Very light color, looks like Pinot Noir. Beautiful fragrance with strawberries and smoke. An elegant, clean, Burgundian style of Chateauneuf with good, crisp acidity and not a lot of tannin apparent. Very good now.

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Flight 2 - Pegau (2 Notes)

  • 2006 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape

    Medium color with a light rim. Whoa, after the delicate, squeaky clean wine from Feraud-Brunel, the animal funk on the nose came as an olfactory shock. A completely different sytle-thicker, weightier, more concentrated and more alcohol (without any heat). Darker fruit, wonderful complexity with tar and tobacco, powerful, but the wine could use more acidity for some lift. As is, delicious but somewhat dull in the mouth.

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  • 2005 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Réservée

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape

    Medium ruby, slightly deeper than the '06. Very complex nose with more fruit and less animal fur than the younger wine. Less unctuous and weighty than that wine with higher acid, excellent red and blue fruit and tree bark. Very dry, tannic finish. Clearly much more of a wine for the future than the younger vintage.

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Closing

Before today, I had only tasted one wine from Feraud-Brunel. Based on the 4 wines in the line up today, it seems to me that the names should be reversed. The wines had much more of a resemblance to the lighter, more elegant wines made by Andre Brunel at Les Cailloux than to the sometimes unruly, powerful wines of Laurence Feraud. What an interesting collaboration this must be! Fascinating contrast between the F-B wines, especially the Chateauneuf, and the 2 vintages of Pegau.

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