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Thursday, May 14, 2015 - Never had a better young Rhone. Well, it is chronologically young, but it's insanely complex and featuring all sorts of the interesting non-fruit elements that you often have to wait a long time for. The Brezeme and St.-Julien-en-St.-Alban wines are such great values here that I have not paid as much attention as I should have to the Cote-Rotie, but this really does offer whole extra dimensions of complexity that justify the tab. It's got a savory, saline meatiness along with tapenade and sweeter baking-spice elements and all sorts of other things I can't even begin to put my finger on, but what I love the most about Texier's wines is how pure and fresh the fruit is. It's saturating and glossy and dense with natural fruit sweetness as fresh and vibrant as if the berries were being foot-stomped right in the glass. I can't think of any other producer that pulls off fruit so rich and luscious that's also so pure and fresh and thirst-quenching that you could be perfectly happy guzzling through a straw. Needless to say, no leftovers to follow the next day. :( I bought six more and will cellar some but not all -- it's just too good now not to enjoy some as is.

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