2000 Mas Cristine Rivesaltes Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 91 points

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  3/11/2005 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 91 Points

  The sommelier told me to try it first and he'd come back after I'd tasted it to explain it.
  A fantastic coppery colour like a very very very very very pale tawny: imagine a 10 yr tawny diluted 50:50 with white wine. Interesting nose - and it's obviously not a muscat - with dried fruit and nuts, mocha and a hint of vanilla. I guess this is a lightly fortified grenache, like a Banyuls, but in a much much lighter style. On the palate, it's round and soft, with more dried fruits and a marked cognac flavour: but only the flavour - there's no trace of spirit.
  Apparently it is grenache, but it's grenache blanc, that is fortified and then left outside in large glass jars at the Mas for three seasons (winter, spring, summer) to develop some rancio notes. I didn't quite get the rancio notes, but I really liked this wine.
  (at Lindsay House, London)

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