Byron Hewett

9.2

Big, rich and smooth. Savory, Provençal herbs, and garrigue. Anise. Tasty. — 4 years ago

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9.5

Vivid ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and pit fruits, potpourri and garrigue, and an exotic spice note emerges in the glass. Stains the palate with sweet raspberry, cherry and lavender pastille flavors that steadily put on weight with air. Conveys a suave blend of power and finesse and finishes extremely long and floral, with fine-grained tannins lending discreet grip. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, February 2020)
— 5 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

Really good. GSM. Rich, ripe with plenty of cherry, garrigue, Provençal herbs, iron, lavender, layered and long. — 6 years ago

Fabian Kühlhorn

8.9

Ganska sval upplevelse med en elegant rödbärighet. Betydligt mer drickbart nu än -13. Björnbär och garrigue. — 7 years ago

Kevin Cahoon

9.2

Rich, ripe and dense fruit on the nose. Raspberry, strawberry and plum aromas with hints of garrigue and white pepper. Big and lush on palate with jammy fruit tones and round soft tannins. A bit primary and was hoping for more complexity. Well balanced so interested to see how this ages. — 8 years ago

Antonio Capurso

9.5

Nose: all the aromatic flavours of excellent Grenache first - then loads of spiciness, garrigue, elegant oak, roasted meat, black fruit (black currant, cherries)
Palate: very very fine and silky tannins, medium to high body, red/black fruit, nice oak, great complexity

(Avignon - Le Vin Devant Soi - enomatic) — 9 years ago

Devin Bray

8.9

Deep baked dark fruit on the nose. Bloody and jammy in the mouth with lots of garrigue and afternotes of charred meat. A bit of green olive. — 9 years ago

Wineshout 💀

9.1

Garrigue herbs, floral notes and warm fruits with a touch of licorice. Great structure and medium tannins will allow for good aging. The 2011 vintage is more herbaceous and less fruit-forward than is past years, and still too young - took an age of decanting to get it to shine. Dont open yet - hold. Lots of potential. — 10 years ago

JohnQ Boxler

Sales Berkeley Wine Company

8.9

2012 Vintage. Dark fruits, garrigue, Faugeres funk, Bootsy Collins bass solo soul, earthy goodness. Fuh-schtinkin'. Plenty of tannins; hide in a dark, cool place for a couple years. Very good. Rebuy. — 11 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.6

Garrigue incarnate! — 11 years ago

with Jason and Angela

Mark Rosse

9.0

Not bad at 16 years old — 5 years ago

K Brooks

8.9

Quite pleasant with sautéed chicken and pasta ($15) — 5 years ago

Dave Montagne

9.2

Love this bottle! Will definitely buy more. — 6 years ago

Jay Kline

8.9

Brambles, garrigue. Lovely already. 2015 is a vintage to go deep on CdP. — 7 years ago

Matt

9.3

Captures the elegance of Grenache and the 2014s. Pure ripe and confiture fruit, almost liquor like, underpinning of minerals, garrigue, and herbs. Drank too quickly as it needed more aeration — 8 years ago

John B

9.3

Garrigue, lavender, black olive, licorice, black fruit and legs for miles. — 8 years ago

Keith Herrick

9.0

Dried strawberry, garrigue and brett... My score reflects my bias against this region — 9 years ago

Pete Stosich

9.0

Agree with the garrigue — 9 years ago

Jonathan Lipsmeyer

9.3

Crystalline character to the red fruit, and while this is a large wine there is very little sense of heaviness. No heat on the finish (this makes me giddy). Dusty fine Grenache tannins. Something feral and wild, sweet skunky earthiness (the garrigue manifests as a rosemary, tarragon, sweet fennel odor that is perfectly beguiling). What a regal Southern rhone wine; what a vintage! It will be so hard not to drink these and allow then to blossom! — 10 years ago

Arnaud Fabre

9.0

Grande franchise, joli fruit, garrigue, fluide. — 11 years ago

with Marco

Morgan Reece

9.7

Ben likes it. Zebra — 12 years ago

Matt

9.4

Always a fav. First taste of 2015 vintage, nice balance for the year, extraction is deft and carries some finesse to it. As usual, complex, layered, full of goutte de terroir. Layers of cherry from crushed to soaked, slight hint of prune, raspberry confiture, game, fur, roast beef, juniper, forest and cedar, pure garrigue, licorice root, ceylon cinnamon, chaparral, powdered sugar, 5 spice, singed tobacco, graphite, bitter cocoa. Still taut, the tannins need time to relax, but I think they will always have persistence in the wine. Ok with me. — 5 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

8.9

A bit more alcoholic than we expected, a bit hollow in the cheeks...still, some good fruit and garrigue, would like more structure, perhaps give it a few years. Like a more angular CdP. — 6 years ago

with Alsu

John J

9.0

Good cdp, this 2014 is a lighter cuvee, others commented it is burgundian in style and I agree.
Nice raspberry palate, minerality with harmonized garrigue, good tannins. Great complement to food, it's a better wine with food. The garrigue blew off day 2-3 which I miss. A PNP is OK with this wine. — 7 years ago

Sergio Licea

9.3

Cherry liqueur, blackberry compote, garrigue, dried tarragon, violets, green peppercorns, wet stones, clay. Vibrant rounded acidity, medium-full bodied, juicy-satin texture, mild rough velvet tannins, long herbal, fruity finish. Balanced fruit, earthy notes, wonderfully herbal on the palate. This one will be special with you extended cellaring time. Decanting recommended. — 7 years ago

Michael Tao

9.0

Very nice Rhone-style blend -- Syrah / Carignan / Grenache. Really enjoying with Christmas celebration! — 8 years ago

Gerald Montoya

9.6

Deep and complex with focused blue fruit, garrigue, stony and almost smoky. Beautiful complexity and definitely showing some secondary notes, but the acidity (at least of this bottle) was pretty high still and didn't start to integrate until 4 hours in the decanter. Plenty of life left to hold onto bottles for 5-10 years. — 9 years ago

with Casey and Jason

Kory Riley

9.4

Delicious wine. Bing cherry, ripe blackberry. Would have again. — 10 years ago

with Brandon

Elizabeth Kinney

9.2

Europe 2014 — 10 years ago

Barb Perch

9.7

With grass fed bone in rib eye — 11 years ago