Vibrant red wines tasted in 2012

The selected vibrant bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 7 reds from the Midi.

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2012 (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 la communauté européenne — Cave de Signes — Le cigalon — ("Bag in Box")

3 € — nv —

Languedoc — Rouquette — Les petits grains — (en BiB)

— nv —

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

— 2010 —

Corbières — Magali & Dominique Terrier - Domaine des 2 Ânes — Premiers Pas

7 € — 2010 — red fruit (carignan varietal) - red fruit, dense but juicy, supple, frank

Saint-chinian wine label Saint chinian — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Les Travers de Marceau — (carignan dominant, cinsault, syrah)

— 2011 —

vin-de-table wine label Vin de table — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Le Chant de Marjolaine (carignan)

8 € — 2010 — wait until 2013 - a lot of red fruit, banana - dense, dries the mouth, food-friendly, akin to the 2009

corbières wine label Corbières — Magali & Dominique Terrier - Domaine des 2 Ânes — Fontanilles

8 € — 2009 — big red fruit, does not dry the mouth much, supple

Beaujolais — Mathieu Lapierre et Jean-Claude Chanudet — Château Cambon

8 € — 2010 — the fruit is very pure - aromas are very precise - refined, light, firm

Minervois — Domaine Cailhol Gautran — Villa Lucia

11 € — 2009 — delicious, with much intensity of fruit - harmonious, powerful but frank

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