Fine Wine > Red > $20-50 > France

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"Alary’s top cuvee, the 2010 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Cairanne Font d’Estevanas is a blend of equal parts old vine Grenache and Syrah, the latter planted in 1961, grown in the clay/limestone hillsides ... it is a fabulous unfiltered wine offering abundant notes of licorice, truffles, camphor, black..

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"Another blockbuster is the 2010 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Rasteau Cuvee Marc. Composed of 50% Grenache, 25% Mourvedre and 25% Syrah, this is a fabulous value from an increasingly promising appellation. A sumptuous bouquet of kirsch, licorice, chocolate fudge, blackberries and graphite emerges from..

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The wines from this 5th generation family-estate offer incredible values, especially in a vintage like 2010. Chofflet represents the best of the Cote Chalonnaise.

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"Vivid purple. Intense dark berry aromas show impressive depth and spiciness. Juicy, tightly focused blackberry and bitter cherry flavors gain sweetness and flesh with air, along with a suave floral quality. Violet and star anise notes linger on the very long, sweet, well-focused finish."

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This wine has a deep color and seduced by mature bouquet, fruity and woody. Medium-bodied, it nevertheless reveals powerful, thick, very attractive. It is a wine with good aging potential. You can enjoy it with a roasted duckling or a sirloin grilled guinea fowl with morels.

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This is a beautiful, rich blend of grenache and syrah. It has a brilliant deep ruby red colour with intense aromas of red fruits, pepper, spice and liquorice. It is a full bodied and powerful wine, well balanced with a very long finish.

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“... Layers of dark red fruit, flowers and spices caress the palate in this supple, radiant wine. This shows lovely mid-palate presence and plenty of depth within the context of the vintage. This is another gorgeous set of wines from Philippe Collotte ...”

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The 2nd wine of fantastic micro-estate Clos de Sarpe rated 92-95 by Robert Parker for the 2006 vintage. "Clos de Sarpe is a wine for those with 19th century tastes, but it is impressively endowed, and one has to admire a proprietor who is willing to go back to the future and make a Bordeaux..