Community Tasting Notes 41

• loloFR Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 20, 2021 - A beauty! A perfect balance between power and finesse/elegance! Plenty of life left.

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• Finare Vinare wrote: 95 points

  February 27, 2021 - Entering its low teens, Valinière shifts gear and leaves most other southern French 07's in the dust. The nose is downright fabulous, with lifted topnotes of lilacs, violets and roses hovering above fresh blue fruits and masses of deeper minerality. As the wine has shed quite a lot of anthocyanins and tannins, the initially more muscular expression has transformed into sleek, fine-tuned elegance. Suddenly, one can imagine the fully mature version another decade ahead. But at this stage, you get it all - bright liveliness as well as matured finesse. This bottle gave us immense joy and drinking pleasure in the company with grilled lambchops.

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• french16 wrote: 96 points

  February 16, 2019 - Started a little stewed but after 20mn really opened up and showed its true character. There’s always a Burgundian side to this cuvée but this vintage showed riper and darker than usual. Still absolutely delicious and complex. Loved it. Drink now.

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• Finare Vinare wrote: 94 points

  September 2, 2017 - The '07 Valinière is totally singing at the moment, or rather feedbacking like Neil Young's Les Paul on Weld '91. Crazy energy and intensity, great freshness, no heat, everything in balance, long future ahead.

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• d'Artagnan wrote: 91 points

  January 19, 2017 - Du très beau travail!
  
  Le nez est expressif, sur le fruit rouge et la garrigue. La bouche montre de la fraicheur, de l’équilibre, avec du fruit dans un style franc, épicé, joufflu et goûteux, typiquement languedocien. De corps moyen, il est concentré avec élégance, plein et savoureux, avec aussi une relative finesse dans sa finale, avec ses tanins tendres. Cette finale évoque la syrah, alors que l’attaque fait davantage mourvèdre (il est fait de 80% mourvèdre et 20% syrah). Un vin délicieux et complet. 91 pts

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Léon Barral
• Varietal Mourvèdre Blend
• Designation Valinière
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Languedoc Roussillon
• SubRegion Languedoc
• Appellation Faugères

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• In Cellars 58 (28%)
• Consumed 150 (72%)

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