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| This Saturday we will be showing off a great lineup of wines from along the Rhone as it winds its way down to the Mediterranean. Grenache is at its best in the Rhone. And while you can spend a fair amount of money for a Chateauneuf du Pape, there are plenty of good wines from the Rhone at quite affordable prices. Unfortunately, we can only pour a few. Come check them out. |
| 2008 Domaine de Couron, Cotes du Rhone, Viognier $12 |
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100% Viognier from 22 year old vines. The Couron Viognier is organic and sustainably farmed by a husband and wife team in the Rhone Valley. The wine is very floral with ripe peach flavors on the palet and a crisp finish. |
| 2007 Chateau Bolchet Costiere de Nimes $9 |
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50% Syrah/50% Grenache This small 4th generation family run estate, in the village of Caissargues, uses no herbicides, or pesticides and only naturally occurring yeasts. The Bolchet is juicy and dark with hints of fig, red currants, and cocoa notes and a good deal of depth for the money. |
| 2008 Chateau d’Aussieres Val de l’Ours Rouge $10 |
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75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Syrah From this Rothschild run winery in the Languedoc, the Val de l’Ours is a big, brawny, ripe fruited bear of a wine. Big body, but a Teddy Bear heart. |
| 2007 Domaine des Escaravailles, Cotes du Rhone Les Sablieres $14.50 |
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70% Grenache, 20% Syrah and 10% Carignan "Escaravailles," the Occitan word for beetle was a nickname for the black-robed monks of the hill-perched monasteries in the past where the vineyards are now located. These high altitude vineyards (average of 600 feet) set Escaravailles’ wines apart. The Les Sabliers has full ripe fruit plum, raspberry and cherry with a spicy earthiness. |
| 2007 Domaine du Grand Montmiral, Vacqueyras $25 |
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60% Grenache, 40% Syrah A Burgundian wine making family, the Cherons headed south in the 1960’s acquiring vineyards in Gigondas and Vacqueyras on the sloping hillsides of the Dentelles de Montmirail mountain range. The 59-acre vineyard is planted at a southern exposure, on a clay and chalk-based soil littered with cannonball sized rocks. The wine is replete with fruit and absent of the rusticity often associated with this appellation. The Vacqueyras offers a mouthful of pure black fruit with notes of berries, spice and a finishing note of licorice. |
| Take the tasting home!! |
| Too much to take in at once ? Buy one bottle each of the five featured tasting wines and get 10% off. Spend the weekend trying them again. |