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Wine Details
Price:
$18.99 per bottle
Description:
Though southern French wines from 2002 are often viewed with a Jau-jau de jaundiced air, due to the heavy rains experienced that year, the area around Minvervois was largely spared until just after the grapes were harvested. Even the mercurial Michel Escande, from whose estate, Domaine de Borie de Maurel, a large percentage of this wine derives (and a notoriously late harvester, truth be told) brought in grapes in advance of the poor weather. We continue to include a small portion of whole cluster viognier in several of the fermentations, which seems to significantly augment the aromatic potential of the wine, while adding a touche of incremental tannin and peppery spiciness. This is a rich, fruitful and generously scented wine, soft in texture and acidity and replete with a good mineral backbone. It starkly demonstrates the difference between the antipodean (read Oz) and the anti-antipodean paradigm. In: cassis, minerals, violets, roasted meat, bacon fat and white pepper. Out: Blackberry syrup, inflammatory 16+% alcohols, and the not-so-subtle imprint of the Ozark oak forest.
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