2007 Eric Texier Côtes du Rhône-Brézème

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 88.2 points

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  12/28/2023 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nice nose with dark fruit, earthy notes, red plum, cherries, and dried flowers. Good acidity and quite tannic and powdery on the palate with more dark cherries and berries. Good finish. A nice wine that's enjoyable now, although I don't think the fruit will outlast the tannins.

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  5/16/2023 - JohnMcIlwain Likes this wine:

  This is showing admirably. Structure mostly resolved, with a fine array of dark fruits of the bosky variety, savory herbs, and funky game notes, with a salty (more iodine than Maldon) bead of minerality within. Nice ripeness, with no sense of torréfaction and excellent freshness given the vintage. Quite tasty with pan-roasted Rohan duck breast with a lavender honey, herbes de Provence glaze, roasted duck fat potatoes, and haricots verts with shallots. My last bottle, but if I had another, I’d pair with duck confit or perhaps navarin. I’ve enjoyed Eric Texier’s wines for years and this shows that even lower on the food chain his wines shine with age. Re-buy? For sure. And given a time machine, I’d have purchased more.

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  3/26/2023 - Chomsky wrote:

  Really delicious well-aged Syrah. Super smoky on the nose as Texier's Brézème usually is - intense smoked paprika, smoked beef jerky - with haunting scents of cherry liqueur on the periphery. Much of the same on the palate, which is driven by strong acids. The fruit is fading away and has the savory meter peaking. Very good, not profound but utterly textbook Syrah. The higher-end Domaine de Pergaud bottling must be amazing.

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  7/31/2022 - tritip Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Found this hiding in the cellar. Still a little life left. Fruit has lost some of its freshness but Texier's winemaking shines through.. Slight vegetal note subsided after an hour, mushroom, leather , black pepper secondaries came forward. 12% ABV - noteworthy.
  Moderate sediment in the bottle.

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  3/27/2016 - wineshlub wrote: 88 Points

  Opened one hour in advance. Reticent aromas of berry fruit, Pleasant earthy flavors of cherry, rhubarb. Herbal finish. Balanced, pleasant, linear, backbone, good staying power. Very good, probably not going anywhere from here.

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