Three wines tasted from WIT tubes

Stockholm
Tasted Sunday, January 26, 2014 by Vintomas with 266 views

Introduction

Three wines tasted from 60 ml WIT tubes, stored under inert gas. This was a sample provided by the French-Swedish dealer Handla på vingården.

Flight 1 (3 Notes)

  • 2011 Château Puech-Haut Coteaux du Languedoc Saint-Drézéry Prestige 87 Points

    France, Languedoc Roussillon, Languedoc, Coteaux du Languedoc Saint-Drézéry

    Nose with blackberries, cherries, a hint of sweet berry notes, some liquorice, some animal notes, rather flowery with violets. A bit more than medium bodied, with cherries, noticeable acidity and fresh tartness from attack to aftertaste, liquorice, medium tannins and a bit of alcoholic fire throughout. Comes across as rather young at present, 87(+) p.
    This wine shows rather much Syrah character in the pleasant nose, but the “Languedoc warmth” and the Grenache component can be noted in the somewhat fiery character, so the wine is not at all similar to a typical Syrah from Rhône. In a way this is a paradoxical wine with both alcoholic fire (“hot”) and very pronounced acidity (“cool”). Although it is by no mean extreme in this case, a too prominent alcoholic feeling always means a reduced score from me. The explanation for the small plus sign is that I actually believe that this wine, thanks to its fresh acidity, may become a bit more balanced if more spice notes develop with, say, 1-3 years of cellaring. Those who don’t mind a bit of extra alcoholic feeling can drink it straight way.

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  • 2011 Domaine Rouge Garance Côtes du Rhône Villages Les Saintpierre 89 Points

    France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Villages

    Nose with really dark berry notes with blackberries, noticeable tar and smoke notes, some mineral with a crushed stone character, a hint of green notes and a light flowery note with violets. Medium bodied(+), blackberries and other dark berries, tar and spice, good acidity, very light fiery character with sweetness of fruit, noticeable and rather powerful tannins “with claws” that stay on long in the aftertaste, where some sweet berry character also provides some freshness. Young; those who enjoy tannic wines drink now while others put it away for cellaring, 89+ p.
    Dark and muscular nose, unusually dark Syrah character for a southern Rhône wine. The tough character is present all the way to the aftertaste, and all things considered, this wine is probably more Mourvèdre-style (with the exception of “a lack of horse” in the nose). This must be the result of the old Syrah wines rather than the 10% of Mourvèdre as such.

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  • 2007 Château de Cérons Cérons 88 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Cérons

    Medium yellow colour with some golden tinge. Nose with typical hints of tropical fruit – passionfruit and pineapple – dried apricots, some citrus, noticeable botrytis with some fudge and some spice. Sweet, oily palate with dried apricots, some baked apple, honey, rather good acidity, and some impression of mineral. 88 p.
    If I had tasted blind, I could not have told that this wine wasn’t a Sauternes. It is at more-or-less the same level of sweetness as those wines (my guess here is a residual sugar of about 100 g/l), and it raises distinctly above the level of the “simpler wannabe-Sauternes-copies” from e.g. Graves Supèrieures.

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