2006 Domaine du Clos des Fées Rouge Le Clos des Fées

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  9/27/2023 - M DU VIN Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Wonderful, rich wine with great fruit and lots of life left.

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  1/16/2023 - M DU VIN Likes this wine: 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.

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  11/24/2022 - Sean Tay wrote: 93 Points

  Pronounced nose intensity with black fruits, toast, graphite. Medium+ acidity, medium+ tannin and long finish.

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  9/12/2022 - Lady Chatelaine Likes this wine: 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..

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  12/20/2017 - jkscully Likes this wine:

  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.

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