French red wine values tasted in 2011

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. You may look up the availability of wines if you enter a location name in the search box at the top of the page.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2011 (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 d’oc — Intervins — Mis en bouteille à F-11000 — Cabernet sauvignon

2 € — 2009 —

Haut médoc — — Château du Breuil

— 2008 — typical but with no pepper - reasonable élevage, ripe red fruit - onctuous, gentle élevage, the balance is food-friendly

Côtes-de-provence wine label Côtes de provence — Domaine de Jale — La Venne

— 2008 — typical - red fruit - red fruit, aromatic, dense but juicy, much alcohol, food-friendly

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

— 2010 — typical, intense red fruit - dense, food-friendly

Saint-chinian wine label Saint chinian — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Le Chant de Marjolaine (carignan)

7 € — 2009 — too young - punchy, dries the mouth, a varietal background note, food-friendly

vin de France wine label Vin de France — La Grange aux Belles — Le Vin de Jardin — Grolleau

7 € — 2010 — tasted at low temperature, great purity of fruit - wax polish, gooseberry - red fruit, no pepper, fresh, happily gulping

Bordeaux — — L’Arpent — Cuvée des cerisiers

7 € — 2007 — fruity and flowing, no élevage - unripe cherry - astringent (draws mouth tissues together), pink grapefruit

Saumur champigny — Domaine Filliatreau — Domaine Filliatreau (Tradition)

— 2008 — red fruit, green pepper - harmonious, red fruit, green pepper, juicy, standing firm

anjou wine label Anjou — Marc Houtin et Julien Bresteau - La Grange aux Belles — 53 — Cabernet franc

9 € — 2008 — varietal but with no bell pepper - harmonious, a red fruit that would smell of raw red meat, full grape ripeness, no vegetal note, no trace of élevage - intense, dense, dries the palate, firm

Pic saint loup — Blandine Chauchat - Foulaquier — Les Tonillières

— 2009 —

morgon wine label Morgon — Geneviève et Jean-Claude Chanudet - Domaine J. Chamonard

10 € — 2008 — delicious, intense - strawberry, brandy cherry, roast beef (reduction?) - strawberry, roast beef, juicy, less dense than the 2005, fresher than the 2006, a firm balance

fleurie wine label Fleurie — G. Chanudet — La Madone

10 € — 2008 — cherry, blackcurrant - not onctuous, cherry, blackcurrant, a green note (incomplete grape ripeness), juicy, sharper than the Morgon, standing firm

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