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French red wine values tasted in 2010

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 3 Cahors and 4 Gamays.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2010 (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

Bordeaux — — Les Gauthiers

— 2007 — typical of a Bordeaux, reminds of a Mouton Cadet 2006 - licorice, tire - licorice, tire, dries the mouth, food-friendly balance

Côtes du roussillon villages — Prieur Rabasse

4 € — 2007 — black fruit - onctuous, black fruit, neither weedy nor harsh, dense, supple and round

Vin-de-table-français wine labelVin de table français — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Cousin Oscar — (cinsault dominant)

— Non vintage — very fruity, round

Beaujolais villages nouveau — Vinifié par [Jean-Claude Chanudet et non] Marcel Lapierre — Château Cambon — [gamay]

6 € — 2010 — intense but not explosive like Foillard - strawberry - strawberry, firm balance

Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise — Vignerons de Buxy — Rouge

— 2008 — typically what a Burgundy should be - Morello cherry - Morello cherry, not very dense but juicy, firm stand

Saint-chinian wine labelSaint chinian — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Les Travers de Marceau

— 2008 — fresh red fruit, a note of treaded grapes - fresh red fruit, silky but dries the palate a bit, food-friendly balance

Table — Jean Maupertuis — La Guillaume — Gamay

7 € — 2009 — lots of fruit - ripe cherry, orange - ripe cherry, orange, juicy, incisive (thanks to an uncomplete grape ripeness), firm, shorter than Griottes 2007 by Chermette

Beaujolais nouveau — Jean Foillard — [gamay]

7 € — 2010 — not a lot of fruit for a young natural wine, elegant, more complex on Day 2 - explosive fruit, banana, undergrowth on the second day - low onctuosity, explosive fruit, banana, a note of mocka, undergrowth on the second day, intense, firm, refreshing

Beaujolais — Domaine du Vissoux - Pierre-Marie Chermette — Griottes

7 € — 2007 — more structure than La Guillaume or Foillard, but less aroma - on the palate : morello cherry, strawberry, juicy, vinous, firm - blackberry, very long

Vin de France — Marc Houtin et Julien Bresteau - La Grange aux Belles — La Chaussée rouge — (macération carbonique)

7 € — 2009 — red fruit, the smell of ivy when you rip it from a wall (typical of Atlantic Cabernet) - dense, red fruit, green pepper, a hint of nougat (typical of no-SO2 winemaking), the balance is food-friendly

table wine labelTable — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Le Chant de Marjolaine — (carignan)

— 2008 — nicely fresh - spicy and fresh red fruit, a note of vanilla (but no wood was used) - not onctuous but suave and juicy, fresh red fruit, a note of vanilla (but no wood was used), the balance is food-friendly

Cahors — Château du Cayrou

— 2005 — red fruit - red fruit, dries the mouth, the balance is food-friendly

Cahors wine labelCahors — Jouffreau — Clos de Gamot

8 € — 2006 — red fruit - onctuous, dense, mellow, the balance is food-friendly

Côtes de provence — Clos Cassivet

10 € — 2004 — dust, dark chocolate (due to oak barrel), blackberry - onctuous (thanks to oak barrel), dark chocolate, blackberry, dense, dries the tongue and the palate, food-friendly

Cahors — Jouffreau — Clos de Gamot

32 € — 1989 — much more complex than Cayrou 1989, slightly better than CVNE Imperial 2001 - onctuous, not drying, food-friendly

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