Producer: Marc Kreydenweiss
Variety: Red Rhone Blend
Designation: Domaine des Perrières
Country: France
Region: Rhône
SubRegion: Southern Rhône
Appellation: Costières-de-Nîmes
Price: $17.00
From: Bin Ends Wine for $13.60. This was tasted as part of Twitter Taste Live sponsored by Wilson Daniels.
The Little Wooden Guy applauds any Rhone that comes in under $20 and delivers classic flavors.
Night One
The nose opens with huge barnyard smells, layered smells of animal, dirt and hay. Applewood-smoked bacon is also in the forefront, a strong classic smell. Fruits are intense, like dried cherries and raisins.
The palate opens with surprising mineral flavor, like walking through a limestone quarry and inhaling fine dust as you drink. Fruit is just as intense on the palate, tannins are very tight. The same applewood-smoked bacon shows up on the mid-palate as the limestone softens and darkens into pencil lead.
This is a terrific candidate for big Night Two changes, so stick around and see what happens.
Night Two
Most of the barnyard is gone from the palate. It opens, instead, with medium red fruit. It is not big juicy cherries. Instead, it offers pomegranate and cranberry. It is nowhere near as intense as on Night One. There is some pencil lead on the mid-palate. A clear smoked bacon flavor pops out on the finish. The wine s less intense, but far more balanced, on Night Two.
This is good wine at a great price. The explosiveness right after corking is interesting, but the greater delicacy and balance is even more delightful. To me, that is a clue that this will benefit from some time in the cellar, a couple of years before it really hits its stride.
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1 comment:
This wine sounds a lot like a wine I've been drinking lately: Plan Pegau L-2006 Selectionne par Laurence Feraud (which is sort of a Cote du Rhone). Grenache, Syrah and Carignan southern Rhone blend. Funky on the nose and palate, big earthy cherries. I don't know what the "L" is - I think that means "mostly" 2006. It's outrageous. $18 retail.
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