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PROVENCE |
RED |
| RHO-295. 06 BANDOL, DOM TEMPIER Wine & Spirits 92: ‘The warm 2006 vintage gave a particularly effusive Bandol at Tempier, its smoky mourvedre fruit juicy with blackberry flavors. Pleasantly gritty tannins keep it in line, along with leather and charred meat notes that make it seductively ‘animale’. It will show well this summer and for several summers to come. Serve with grilled meats.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 35.99 each |
| RHO-296. 04 COTES DU PROVENCE, JULES 50% grenache, 25% each carignan, mourvedre. Ripe, dark, gamy. Stewed plums. Rich. The carignan and mourvedre make strong contributions./ Sleek, classy, subtle black fruits, 04 dark and restrained. Needs time for the palate to fill out and reflect the nose’s amplitude. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each |
| RHO-297. 05 COTES DU LUBERON, DOM DE FONTENILLE Lots of garrigue and potpourri as usual here. Peppered meat and rosemary. Violets, potpourri, fig–so much going on!/ Perfumed, floral, sachet like–even more exaggerated than usual. Licorice too. Great acidity. As usual, this rocks! Has a future too. 91+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each |
| RHO-298. 05 COTES DU LUBERON, CH LA CANORGUE Wow! The most beautiful black raspberry fruit, clear and well defined, plus an aura of garrigue nuances, complex and lovely./ Yes, as lovely as Luberon rouge gets. Cool and clear and varigated. Some vintages, this wine used to be very inky and compact and chewy at this age. This year, it’s just as charming as can be. 92/100. Chateau La Canorgue was the film site of the movie ‘A Good Year’ based on a book by Peter Mayle. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each |
| RHO-299. 04 COTES DU LUBERON, CH VAL JOANIS Powerful, astute. Cool 04 uplift. Tight-knit, classic Luberon rouge. Peppercorn, garrigue, berries and seeds./ Again, the 04 lift. Licorice and garrigue flavors. Good power and flair in combo. Fine structure, focus, zest, class. Will improve for 2-3 years. 91+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
PROVENCE |
ROSE |
| RHO-301. 08 COTEAUX D’AIX EN PROVENCE, COMMANDERIE DE LA BARGEMONE Really rises to the occasion. The fruit is sweeter and richer than usual, less delicate, coy. But there’s lots of beauty and finesse as always./ Fresh, supple, suave, polished, fruity, stony, tangy. Strawberry, cotton candy, red pop. Good to go right now. One of the best I’ve experienced at this early age. 91/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each |
| RHO-302. 08 COTES DE PROVENCE RESERVEE TRADITION ROSE, CH DU ROUET Fresh and more appley than red fruited. Fermentation odors still. Good promise though./ Yes, to my tastes this is still in the formative stages. I love the potential though. See you in May-June. Which is when, after all, it will be shipped. 15.8+. However, others in the group and on the staff like it right now. Jorge notes: Ahh! Soft, seductive strawberry and raspberry. So balanced and elegant. What a treat...totally. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON |
RED |
| RHO-305. 05 COSTIERES DE NIMES PERRIERES, MARC KREYDENWEISS New York Times - MODEST LUXURIES FOR LEAN TIMES: ‘Felicitous combination of fruit, funk and earth from an Alsace producer who bought property in the Rhone a few years ago.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
| RHO-306. 06 COSTIERES DE NIMES LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES, MAS CARLOT 50% mourvedre, 50% syrah–daring. Yes, shows the blackness of each varietal. Syrah black raspberry, mourvedre loganberry and cracked black pepper. Impressive fruit delivery, substance./ Brambly flavors more compact and confined. But not tannic. Well poised. The group liked its future. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
| RHO-307. 07 MINERVOIS, DOM AIME |
| How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each |
| RHO-308. 07 MINERVOIS LA BASTIDE, CH COUPE ROSES 07 fruit delivery coupled with Coupe Roses and Minervois discretion. Surprisingly, it’s less yielding than the 05, but maybe it’s at an earlier stage. Good grip, depth, and vigor./ Oh, boy! The palate’s more revealing! Lots of garrigue–the herbs, the spices, the peppercorns. Elegant, flowing, balanced. No tannin. Now that’s a different picture on the palate, more in keeping with the vintage. The group was equally appreciative of the palate. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
| RHO-309. 06 MINERVOIS, DOM DONJON Hearty, tarry, lots of peels. Not an easygoing, elegant Minervois. Tight but engaging. Commands attention./ Dense, ripe, firm, gripping, smoky black fruits and a cured meat note. Material over grace. Food will help; time will help more. 90++/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
| RHO-310. 07 MINERVOIS, CH D’OUPIA Very dark and blue color./ Deep, dark, cool fruits–syrah and mourvedre seem plentiful here. Both sweetness and cool, crispness. Blueberry, blackberry./ Very cool, astringent, ventilating. Will take some time to mellow out. I like its future. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 13.99 each |
| RHO-311. 05 CORBIERES, COL DE VENTS 05 dark fruited but not closing up like many. The fruit is sweet; no sense at all of austerity, severity. It’s just bursting with good black and red fruits, especially raspberry. Wow! Shows complexity and style./ Yes, and not only via fruit. Garrigue too! Bitter herbs, rosemary. Good and strong textural presence too. And length. This delivers! 91/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each |
| RHO-312. 07 CORBIERES, ETANG DES COLOMBES Classic Corbieres with substance and form and style. Freshness, grip, blackness, potential, all./ Yes, all the form and class one could want from Corbieres. Sleek, spicy, fully packed. Great acidity, poise, potential. This takes me back to the 78. Well received by the group. 91+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each |
| RHO-313. 07 CORBIERES, CH LA BASTIDE Parker 90 - UNBELIEVABLE VALUE: ‘Guilhem Durand’s 2007 is an 80-20 Syrah-Grenache cuvee. Bright and juicy, saline and meaty, and with even more energy and sappy persistence than the other 2007 vintage Durand wines, this adds dimensions of stony, iodine-like minerality to its black pepper-tinged raw beef and blackberries to arrive at a wine far more complex and classy–not to mention lighter on its feet–than all but a handful of other wines in its appellation. Enjoy this over then next 2-3 years.’’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each |
| RHO-314. 07 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC LA CLAPE, ROUGE DES KARANTES Wow! Not as fruity and easy as last fall, but bigger now. Rich and broad./ Every bit as fruit-juicy flavorful as before. Grenache roundness and black fruit constitution. Syrah and mourvedre fill out the background. And mourvedre astringency. 91+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each |
| RHO-315. 06 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC LA CLAPE, CH DES KARANTES Ripe, sweet fruit confiture nose. Sweet cherry and milk chocolate. Perhaps a little oak in the background. Dark and intense./ Very intense and sweet fruit for 06. Impressive successor to the Spectator hailed 05. Equally promising future. 91+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each |
| RHO-316. 07 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC PIC ST LOUP VIEILLES VIGNES, CH DE LANCYRE 65% syrah, 35% grenache. Oh, sweet and balanced and large! Lots of savory warmth and lush fruit. Plum, blackberry, and toast. Right./ Yes, great acidity, size, extract. Plum and garrigue. Game and licorice. Very young still. Not as giving on the palate as the previous two vintages at about the same age. No problem. Will improve 3-5 years in the cellar. 91++/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 23.99 each |
| RHO-317. 04 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC PIC ST LOUP LA COSTE D’ALAYRAC, CH DE LANCYRE Sweet, baked raspberry. Berry pie. Baked pie crust aromas too./ Sweet and full for 04. Fine warm-fruit flavor complex, savory. Full and strong. For winter fare. Will improve another 1-2 years. 92+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each |
| RHO-318. 06 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC PIC ST LOUP CUPA NUMISMAE, LA ROQUE |
| How Many bottles/singles: 22.99 each |
| RHO-319. 06 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC BRONZINELLE, DOM ST MARTIN DE LA GARRIGUE Parker 90 - SUPERB VALUE: ‘Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, and a bit of Carignan, treated to some time in small barrels. Full of sweet red cherry fruit tinged with vanilla, cinnamon, faintly bitter cherry pit accents and a pleasant toasted note that makes for an effect like freshly baked cherry pie with a lightly singed crust. Richly textured, and with its slight surplus in tannin vis-a-vis the Tradition bottling, well swathed in folds of fruit, this seamless wine finishes with more than enough juicy fruit unimpeded by barrel and an alluring, lingering spiciness. There is no need to wait, but this should keep nicely for several years.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 16.99 each |
| RHO-320. 06 COTEAUX DE BESSILLES RESERVE, DOM ST MARTIN DE LA GARRIGUE Sweet fruit in the 06 dark mode. Lots of cracked pepper. Some garrigue, if not as much showing as in the last two vintages. The contriteness of a young 06./ Yes, this is 06 purple, racy. Peppercorn and garrigue again. Really great fruit acidity. This will age well. And it needs it, as it’s not as aromatic as several previous vintages at this age. 90++/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
| RHO-321. 07 L’HERAULT 1C, CAPION |
| How Many bottles/singles: 13.99 each |
| RHO-322. 08 COTES DU ROUSSILLON VILLAGES BILA-HAUT, M CHAPOUTIER #75 - WINE SPECTATOR TOP 100 - 90/100: ‘A muscular red, with concentrated flavors of dark cherry, plum, raspberry tart and grilled fig. The dense finish of dark chocolate is firm and focused, with smoky notes. Syrah, Grenache and Carignan. 2010-2014.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 13.99 each |
| RHO-323. 05 COTES DU ROUSSILLON NOTRE TERRE, MAS AMIEL Dark, cool, polished 05 style. Vivid black fruits, including currant and cranberry./ Ripe currant and spiced, brandied cherry flavors with overlay of game and licorice. Lovely fruit expression of 05. Good weight, smooth texture, lively acidity. Well crafted, well poised. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each |
| RHO-324. 05 COTES DU ROUSSILLON, SARABANDE |
| How Many bottles/singles: 13.99 each |
| RHO-325. 04 COTEAUX DE PEYRIAC, CUVEE OLIVIERS, DOM MASSAMIER LA MIGNARDE Spicy garrigue range with 04 cool, ventilating highlights, like licorice and menthol. And fine cigarette tobacco./ Ripe, cool, racy, easy flowing, lilting. Complex, giving, claret-like (04), accommodating. Plenty expression, range, and character for the price. Excellent value. 89+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 9.49 each |
| RHO-326. 04 COTEAUX DE NARBONNE CARIGNAN VIEILLES VIGNES, DOM DE NIZAS Intense blackberry and bramble. Spicy-zesty, peppery. Big, ripe, bold, and very handsome. Very, very vigorous on the attack./ Delicious berries and flowers flavors. Very fine, smooth glycerol coating with great, fresh acidity slicing through. Fine structured. Forthcoming. Just super. Better than the 03. 91/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 16.99 each |
| RHO-327. 07 VIN DE PAYS D’HAUTERIVE SYRAH, LA BASTIDE Parker 88 - AMAZING VALUE: ‘Exuberant and bright, and its combination of black pepper, black cherry, beef juices, tar, and violets puts one in mind of the Northern Rhone. Finishing with sappy persistence, this will serve admirably for the next couple of years.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each |
| RHO-328. 07 HERAULT, LES HERETIQUES Sweet carbonic maceration style of fruitiness. Accompanying reduction of youth. Black and purple fruits./ Compact still, but not without an engaging sense of prettiness, charm. Give it a chance to evolve and open. 89+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each |
| RHO-329. 08 OC, PUYDEVAL 60% cabernet franc, 28% syrah, 12% merlot. Dark, crisp, cool. Full and fine. More like the 06 than the 07. Blackberry, with clove and floral accents. Lots of aromatic and textural variegation./ Yes, rich, juicy, flavorful. Fine texture and flavor subtleties. Good weight and integrity. This is even better than the 06, and better than the 07 too. Yet from a leaner vintage in the southern Rhone. Does it get better as you move west, like 02? Seems so. 91/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 13.99 each |
| RHO-330. 03 CASSAN TEMPRANILLO DOM LA TOUR PENEDESSES MAS DE COUX Oh, neat to have some French tempranillo! I know they grow it there, but rarely see it. Big, handsome black fruits, tobacco, spices. Also smoke, anise, chocolate, black cherry, and lavender. Quite the complex aroma range. Very confident of its future too./ Very spicy, briary palate, with blackberry, clove, garrigue, mace, and some sense of woodiness. Lots of vigor and texture. Dense black fruits and fine grained fruit tannins. Fine acidity, especially for 03. Has a sense of majesty and command. Says ‘pay attention’. 91/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each |
| RHO-331. 06 OC GRENACHE/SYRAH PLUME BLEUE, L FERAUD Parker 87 - WORLD’S GREATEST WINE VALUES: ‘A classic Provencal wine offering roasted herb, new saddle leather, black cherry, currant, and loamy soil characteristics. A tasty, earthy effort with loads of personality, it should provide plenty of pleasure over the next 2-3 years.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each |
| RHO-332. 07 OC SYRAH/GRENACHE PEGOVINO, L FERAUD Ripe, sweet, nutty. Full fruit up front. Continues to plump up with aeration./ Blackberry, strawberry, currant, touch of garrigue. Boisterous and attractive. 89/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each |
| RHO-333. 05 OC GRENACHE, SAISON DE BEAUCHENE The grenache is surely there–strawberries galore. Other berries too. And black pepper and garrigue nuances. Racy, tangy, bright, and fresh. Very expressive./ Palate adds black raspberries. Plump, generous, and open-hearted. No secrets here. Dry and dinner-worthy–especially for summer. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 8.99 each |
| RHO-334. 07 OC CINSAULT, TERRES FALMET From 50+ year old hillside vines. Fresh and full. Warm and seductive. Real 07 fruit concentration. The classic freshness and lift of cinsault in all its glory./ Good fullness and plenty of garrigue extras. A textbook lesson in cinsault. And will improve. 91+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each |
| RHO-335. 06 OC MARSELAN, CAMPLAZENS Marselan is a cross of cabernet sauvignon and grenache developed in France, likely at Montpellier in the Midi. Yes! That funky combo of sweet, ripe, smoky grenache and the blackberry influence of cabernet. Nicely forward now. That’s one of the assets of this variety./ Sweet and spicy. Soft around the edges, with good acidity at the heart, giving a juicy taste. Again, the sweet, smoky, spicy appeal of teriyaki beef plus the plump, woodsy berriness. Lots of panache. Last tasted 12/08, this has retained its freshness and has softened and broadened nicely. The group was fascinated with this. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each |
| RHO-336. 06 OC SYRAH LA VIOLETTE, J-L COLOMBO |
| How Many bottles/singles: 13.99 each |
| RHO-337. 07 OC SYRAH FAT BASTARD, THIERRY & GUY |
| How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each |
| RHO-338. 08 OC PINOT NOIR LES SALICES, LURTON |
| How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each |
LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON |
ROSE |
| RHO-340. 08 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC ROSE, DOM DES KARANTES Good full red orange color./ Good, healthy, full blooded aroma–almost a red wine smell. Candied cherry and strawberry./ Good, firm strength. Peel tones, peppercorn, berries. Good grip. Lots of material. Really stands on its own; would replace a red wine at the table. Will develop through summer and beyond. 90+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each |
| RHO-341. 08 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC ROSE, DOM FAMILONGUE Apple and cherry aromas. Sweet and nutty. Well defined. Pretty. 89/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each |
| RHO-342. 08 MINERVOIS ROSE, DOM DONJON Restrained floral aromas with light red fruits. With air come seductive cherry and raspberry tones../ Good textural richness of Donjon. Restrained, pippy red fruits with some herbal interests. This one always takes a few months to blossom. 89+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 13.99 each |
| RHO-343. 08 COTES CATALANES ROSE , CUVEE DE PENA This has really developed nicely over the last couple of months. Lots more red fruit showing, especially raspberry and strawberry. No longer showing fermentation odors. It’s fully accomplished wine now. Soft and fleshy, burnished fruits. Better than the 06 and 07 ever became. Lovely. 90/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each |
| RHO-344. 08 COTEAUX DE PEYRIAC ROSE, MASSAMIER LA MIGNARDE The most blue-tinged of the 08 Med rose quartet. More syrah here?/ More of a raspberry than strawberry nose supports that theory. And dash of white pepper./ Cranberry, strawberry, rose petals, minerals, hint of spice. Firm and reserved still; dry, even austere. Good peels extract. Give it a couple of months to plump up, fill out. But one could already put it to use with food. 89+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each |
| RHO-345. 08 TERRE DE CAUSAN ROSE, L’ESPIGOUETTE |
| How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each |
LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON |
WHITE |
| RHO-347. 06 CORBIERES ROUSSANNE MACCABEU, DOM DE TRILLOL |
| How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each |
| RHO-348. 08 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC, PICPOUL DE PINET, CAVE DE MONTAGNAC Bright and fresh, with a citrus emphasis. Tangelo./ Initial lime and mineral tanginess yields to a softer side. Apple, pear, fat fruits. Very flavorful. Liked by the group. 90/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 7.99 each |
| RHO-349. 08 COTEAUX DU LANGUEDOC, PICPOUL DE PINET, LES COSTIERS DE POMEROLS Parker 89 - GREAT VALUE: ‘One of my favorite dry whites is the 2008 Picpoul de Pinet, a quintessential aperitif dry white that also work s well with pasta, chicken, and seafood dishes. A fresh, lively wine that smells of melons, grapefruit, and green apples. Crisp, with surprising flavor intensity, it should be enjoyed over the next year.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each |
| RHO-350. 07 OC CHARDONNAY, LOUIS PIERRE & FILS |
| How Many bottles/singles: 8.99 each |
| RHO-351. 07 OC VIOGNIER LA VIOLETTE, J-L COLOMBO |
| How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each |
| RHO-352. 08 CATALAN COTE EST, LAFAGE Parker 90 - MIND-BOGGLING VALUE: ‘From Chardonnay, Marsanne, and old Grenache Blanc vines on cobbled soils near the coats, blended with the fruit of centenarian Grenache Gris vines on Pyrenean schist. The wine is aged in tank on its fine lees and the result is not only irresistibly delicious but truly complex. Orange and lime zest, white pepper, narcissus, fennel, and mint in the nose lead to a juicy, bright palate with musky floral perfume and a shimmering interchange of citrus with wet stone, salt, iodine, and other ineffable mineral elements. This will fascinate and refresh in qual measure as well as fiendishly insinuate itself into your culinary regimen ov e the next 9-12 months, and could be held a bit longer without fear.’ |
| How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each |
CORSICA |
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| RHO-354. 06 PATRIMONIO BLANC, CLOS TEDDI 100% niellucciu. Subtle fruit statement, a little cranberry like. Opens to a soft and inviting fusion of dried fruits and dried flowers, with hints of rosemary and white pepper./ Fresh and crisp but not very pliant yet. Like the nose, elegant and nuanced. Complex range of woodsy impressions. Distinctive, with a fine future. 91+/100. |
| How Many bottles/singles: 24.99 each |
