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Vibrant red wines tasted in 2013

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

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2013 (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-table wine labelVin de table — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Cousin Oscar

4.8 € — nv — strawberry - light, easy drinking, firm

pays wine labelPays — Marc Ollivier et Rémi Branger - EARL La Pépière — La Pépie — Côt

5 € — 2012 — served cool: a better replacement to rosé - ripe cherry - dense, cherry, no manipulation or off aromas, no stiffness

Côtes-du-rhône wine labelCôtes du rhône — SCA les Vignerons d’Estézargues — Cuvée des galets - Non filtré

5 € — 2012 — serve at a cool temperature - red fruit - red fruit, shows the biggest body from this cooperative, dense, dries the palate

vin de France wine labelVin de France — Jean-François Coutelou - Mas Coutelou — 7, Rue de la Pompe

7.2 € — 2012 —

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

7.5 € — 2011 — its usual self, red fruit - balanced

vin-de-France wine labelVin de France — Jean-Marie Rimbert — Le Chant de Marjolaine — Carignan

7.7 € — 2011 — red fruit dominates the palate, easy drinking, firm

Côtes du rhône — Éric Texier

8.1 € — 2010 — This pleases everybody, a Cotes du Rhone typical but without flaw - blackcurrent or blackberry - slightly punchy (as it should be) balanced

Vin de pays de l’Ardèche — Mas de la Bégude - Gilles Azzoni — Le Raisin et l’ange — Hommage à Robert

8.4 € — 2012 —

Vin de table de France — Thierry Alexandre — Cul sec — (syrah)

9 € — 2011 —

Régnié — Julien Sunier

11 € — 2012 —

Côtes du Rhône Brézème — Éric Texier

12 € — 2011 — blackberry - blackberry, plum, violet, dense, not drying, juicy, balanced

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