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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.6 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 17 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by theguy on 9/21/2012 & rated 92 points: Z Willus D says it all. A dark colored, intense, meaty wine. Not some liquid candy. Think lamb, venison, wild boar. Yum. (2808 views) | | | Tasted by larsrog on 10/9/2011 & rated 88 points: Dark dark berries. Some pepper, gras and wet wool. Medium bodied with nice acidity and fine balance. Quite meaty. Decent lenght.
A bit disappointing for me after waiting several years, but a good it is. (2071 views) | | | Tasted by guitarkim on 9/17/2011 & rated 88 points: App: deep purple red
Aroma: ripe dark fruit, especially black-currant, black pepper and other spices.
Full-bodied - with good acidity and moderate tannins. Ripe dark fruit, black pepper and spice on the palate.
Good length. (2140 views) | | | Tasted by TheRikker on 7/4/2011 & rated 89 points: This is drinking great with lots of black fruit, garrigue, beef jerky, french funk, minerality and a nice floral aspect to it. Flavors were similar to the nose with a nice acidic backbone and soft tannins. Nicely balanced with a medium finish. QPR!! This should hold up for a few more years before it starts to head downhill. (3372 views) | | | Tasted by TLHWG on 3/11/2010 & rated 89 points: Great complexity (earth) and red fruit for $10. (3393 views) | | | Tasted by hkm520240 on 2/28/2010 & rated 87 points: Try this today as it is available for tasting. Dark garnet red. Nose of dark cherry & blackberry with earthy notes. Medium bodied, velvety and supple. Some cherry & berry fruits on palate with chewy tannins. Medium+ finishing. (1537 views) | | | Tasted by golfhawk on 2/24/2009 & rated 86 points: Somewhat herbal but showed better fruit as the night wore on. (2242 views) | | | Tasted by z_willus_d on 2/23/2009 & rated 90 points: 90+ min. wide-base decant. Simply red, dark blood-red. I was so happy when I first smelled this. It's not like all the many many other great, but similar, syrah/shiraz wines I've been sniffing lately. Rather than submitting to the domination of some candied fruits, the bouquet on this wine is dominated by heavy heavy meat, game, and funk. Another way of putting that is blood, venison, and wet fungus. Don't let me forget to also mention the crushed dark-red rose-petals that show with the dark plum fruit and sandalwood / oak components. This is the kind of nose you feel like you can eat. I find my mouth chomping down on it, it's so thick. There's a lot of musk perfume showing here as well, especially as it warms in hand. Acid is filling the flesh of this medium-heavy bodied wine. Anything but fruit driven, this tastes of thick rose-water, black liquorish, road shrubs (like biting down on lavender), rosemary resin, and tar, those last two especially so in the finish. It's hard to attribute any fruit flavors to this, other than sour plum perhaps. Not ultra-focused, but well structured with definite tannins for aging some 5+ years. It's interesting, as I'm thinking now about a score of 90-pts., that I'm not apt to go higher, that especially given I'm almost certain to enjoy this better than the past three syrah-based wines I've scored 91 in recollection. There's serious balance here, and more enticing for me, there's also serious complexity. Oh, and the nose gets an A+ in my schoolbook. I think this will only attain greater distinctions in the years to come. (2530 views) | | | Tasted by joshwoodward on 1/17/2009 & rated 89 points: [Blind Syrah tasting] Odd spiciness. Medium body. Light corniness. (1080 views) | | | Tasted by EJZ on 1/12/2009 & rated 90 points: Very solid Syrah! Everything you want from a quality bottle of wine, fruit forward on the nose, but not over the top, plum, blackberry, smoke. Still very good the next day, no rough edges but still has backbone. You cannot go wrong for $20.00!! (2393 views) | | | Tasted by poptart_nyc on 10/26/2008 & rated 88 points: really dark and peppery. lots of grippy taniins. full rich blackberry, with smoke and mocha note. good complexity and concentration. great value. (1653 views) | | | Tasted by poptart_nyc on 10/20/2008 flawed bottle: corked (1611 views) | | | Tasted by golfhawk on 2/11/2008 & rated 87 points: If you can get past the tannins, there is some bright red fruit that can go a long way. Might get better over time but I don't think it will be special. (1935 views) | | | Tasted by jjclips2 on 12/23/2007 & rated 90 points: I really enjoy this wine and it never gets old. The nose is initially packed with typical syrah black plums and blackberries with suggestions of black pepper. Then comes in the French terroir of slight gaminess and damp earth. The palate is definitely syrah and offers very little terroir-driven characteristics, but does contain nice density and extraction of black fruits and spices. The oak isn't hiding either. Finishes with nice spiciness and low acidity with moderat tannins. Great bottle. (2050 views) | | | Tasted by admid on 8/1/2006 & rated 87 points: Dark purple red
Intense nose with notes of black fruits and spices
Full bodied, very firm tannins and excellent structure. Dark fruits on the palate.
Decent length
Still a young wine, needs time.Great potential. (1840 views) |
| Château Maris Producer websiteRed Rhone Blend Read about the different grapes used to produce red and white Rhone wines
On CellarTracker, Red Rhone Blend is the term for a wine consisting of two or more of the traditional 13 Southern Rhone grape varieties. Typically it's the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre or Cinsault grapes, but can also contain the Muscardin, Counoise, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Picpoul, Roussanne, Terret Noir, Picardan or Vaccarese grapes.
A 'food' wine. Lacking pretension and intended for local consumption with local cuisine. Lacks the 'high' notes on a Bordeaux, more earthy and sharper so often a better partner to meat dishes with a sauce. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comLanguedoc Roussillon Inter Sud de France | Vins Languedoc-Roussillon
Wine-Searcher.com: http://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-languedoc-roussillon
Financial Times Article (June 19th 2010 Andrew Jefford):http://bit.ly/bLDytg
Financial Times Article (June 5 2010 Jancis Robinson): http://bit.ly/8ZerX2
David Schildknecht (7th June 2010) Languedoc-Roussillon Best Producers:http://bit.ly/do0LQa Languedoc Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Languedoc (Official site)Minervois-La Livinière Minervois-La Livinière (languedoc-wines.com) |
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