🎄 Advent Halfy Calendar Day 10 🎄
🎅 Santa says “I thought I was a fruity chap but this blends got me beat Ho Ho Ho”
📝 I say a crazy blend that works really well to deliver a Choc cherry raspberry gateaux 🎅 “mmmmm Cake, Santa likes cake”
⏩ 🍾 Mrs E got Laurent Perrier Brut NV
📍 Mas de Daumas Gassac 2013
🏵 90 points
🍇 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5.4% Merlot, 5.3% Tannat, 3.8% Cabernet Franc, 2.5% Malbec, 2% Pinot Noir, 9% other rare varieties
🍷 Deep opaque ruby
👃 An soft oak red & black fruit explosion through cocoa cream of black current/berry, blueberry, dark cherry & raspberry forming a black forest gateaux
👄 Med body of chocolate infused blackcurrant & dark cherry w/ raspberry & blackberry I med+ acidity
🎯 Med+ black cherry gateaux light linger
— 6 years ago
A very nice wine, especially after decanting for 3-4 hours. — 7 years ago
Great fruit, natural — 8 years ago
Nice perfumy candies red fruit and spice. Fine tannin and light presentation. — 8 years ago
Pure Chinon. Musty. Olive. Pretty acidity. Cut grass. Brings us back to Spring in the Loire! — 9 years ago
I can only hope that someday something I've done for nearly my entire life can be fully realized, and enjoyed on such a simple but significant level. — 9 years ago
Magnum 89/100 — 10 years ago
2012...pretty tar y violets...pepper your food! — 11 years ago
Drank it right on the spot in Sartène - delicious — 6 years ago
Vintage 2015 / No sulphites. No filtering. 3 months on amphora, 4 months on barrique. Mix of authentic grapes #nielluciu #sciaccarello #minustello #carcaghjolu #morescone that makes this #corsicanwine very enjoyable. Rich and refined. Pretty round. Some roses. Frivolous. I like it very much. — 6 years ago
2016 vintage — 7 years ago
I don't know about the "drinking pink clouds" marketing hoo-haa, but it's a damn fine and singular Rosé. Sweet but not cloying, tart but not biting. Just right tonight. — 8 years ago
Aromatic, fun, not too sweet — 8 years ago
Tried this on wine tasting at the vineyard and loved it. — 8 years ago
This was fantastic. Kermit ftw. — 9 years ago
Beautiful Verminto from Corsica. With atypical viscosity. Wildflowers with a touch of salt. — 10 years ago
Had before. Loving it tonight. Who wants to go to Corsica June 26-30? — 10 years ago
Light easy going — 11 years ago
Nose has freshly mowed field, spring rain, light salinity, grapefruit peel and white florals.
Palate has refreshing tart (medium) lemon/grapefruit blend, wet grassy notes and great Kimmeridgian core.
Great QPR, Quincy is a wonderful alternative to Sancerre, and well worth a market search. A lightly imported AOC, but also be on the lookout for Menetou-Salon and Reuilly, which neighbor Quincy to the East and West, respectively. — 6 years ago
Vintage 2012 - wine from #corse #corsican local grapes #nielluciu and #sciaccarello The wine has very clear evolution, giving a rooftile brown rim. The smell of a stable, positive stinking! Also raspberries liquor, plums, a bit dusty impression in taste with a nice bitter at the end. The smell of the wine from these curious grapes reminded me a bit of Burgundy. — 7 years ago
Red , dried cherries and strawberries, baked overtones, med plus acid, high alcohol, that “garrigue” aromas..just a delicious wine... — 7 years ago
Potted soil, good acidity. — 8 years ago
100% Cab--not a blend (as identified). Nice menthol, tree bark, eucalyptus, black cherry. Light tannins. — 8 years ago
Excellent alone and hearty enough for meat.
— 9 years ago
Very good but not 2010 or 2011. — 10 years ago
This is the 2013 drinking a little young but very pleasant. Liquorice and ripe cherries on the palate. A little dusty on the nose. — 10 years ago
Great rosé for $9! Whole Foods — 11 years ago
Jeremy Shanker
Sommelier at RN74
One of a kind. Super cool Vermentino. — 6 years ago