French red wine values tasted in 2004

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 3 Rhône rangers.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2004 (between April and December). The tasting notes are listed by increasing prices, with the following format:

Appellation – producer – plot or brand – variety

Approximate price — vintage — general impression – on nose – on palate – after swallowing

Vin de pays — Domaine Roger Perrin

2 € — Non vintage — grape - grape, dries the gum and the palate, fresh

Coteaux du languedoc saint saturnin — Cave des vignerons de Saint-Saturnin — Lucian

— 2001 — I have only tasted it: - a nose dominated by crushed fruit, a pleasant aroma that reminds of wine after fermentation and before bottling - dense, fruity, balanced, dries the palate, herbaceous, a little stiff - the aftertaste is overwhelmed by plant, sustained by alcohol

Vin de pays du Jardin de la France — Marc Ollivier - Domaine de la Pépière — Côt

4 € — 2001 — the wine is clear and pure, green pepper dominates the flavour - the palate is very slightly offdry, light with a hint of hardness

— O.Lemasson et H.Villemade - Les Vins contés — Le P’tit rouquin — (50% gamay à jus blanc, 50 gamay teinturier)

5 € — 2003 — gamay fruit dominates the nose and the mouth - the palate is easy-drinking, with sweets and weak acidity

Coteaux varois — Domaine de la Gayolle - Jacques Paul — Orante (80% syrah, 20% grenache)

— 2000 — red fruit - supple on entry, the palate is aromatic and balanced

Vin de pays de l’Ardèche — Le Mazel — Cuvée C’est Im-Portant

— 2002 — served cool (maybe at 14°C), do not decant - formidable on the nose, fruit jelly, blackberry or blackcurrant sorbet, crushed blackberry, a note of smokiness, cherry, ligneous - juicy, cherry, a plant note, dry, fresh like a fruit juice (with a hint of grapefruit) - the wine lingers with blackcurrant and strawberry

Bourgogne-hautes-côtes-de-nuits wine label Bourgogne hautes côtes de nuits — Domaine Patrick Hudelot — (Pinot noir, à la propriété / sans nom de cuvée en grande distribution)

— 2001 — a nose of cherry and underbrush: classical Burgundy - rich and flattering on entry (thanks to oak treatment?), onctuous, cherry, dries the palate, ends with a pronounced plant note (maybe due to an incomplete ripeness of grapes) - (to be compared to the same vintage tasted one year earlier)

Côtes-du-rhône wine label Côtes du rhône — Domaine La Réméjeanne - Rémy Klein — Les Genévriers — Grenache 50%, syrah 40%, mourvèdre 10%

9 € — 2000 — rather quiet on the nose, with mature fruit and roasting - dense on the palate without a plant note, velvety, delicate aromas of liquorice, blackcurrant and prune, the balance is well made thanks to a nice acidity

Morey st denis — Dominique Laurent — 1er cru Les Monts luisants

48 € — 1997 — this sublime wine does not require ageing any more, it shows both fruit and nerve - a harmonious bouquet of flower, earth, and red berry - the liquid is very intense in the mouth, with red berry, fur, and freshness

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