Vibrant red wines tasted in 2014

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 2014 (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

pays wine label Pays — Domaine de la Pépière — La Pépie — Côt

4.5 € — 2013 — served a bit cool : a better replacement to rosé - redcurrant - redcurrant, lean but not stiff, firm

Vin de France — Sylvie Ledran, Philippe Maffre - Bois Moisset — Rencontre

6 € — 2012 —

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

7 € — 2013 — red fruit (carignan varietal) - red fruit, dense but juicy, supple, frank

Vin de France — Sylvie Ledran, Philippe Maffre - Bois Moisset — Brocol

7.6 € — 2012 — blackcurrant, dries the mouth, balanced

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

7.7 € — 2012 —

Vin de pays de l’Ardèche — Antonin Azzoni — Le Raisin et l’ange — Hommage à Robert

8 € — 2013 — blackberry, tiny beads of gas, balanced

Vin de France — Sylvie Ledran, Philippe Maffre - Bois Moisset — Mérens

8 € — 2010 —

Vin de France — Sylvie Ledran, Philippe Maffre - Bois Moisset — Les Pradels

9 € — 2013 —

vin de France wine label Vin de France — Jean-François Coutelou - Mas Coutelou — Le Vin des amis

9 € — 2013 —

Vin de France — Jean-François Coutelou - Mas Coutelou — Classe

10 € — 2013 —

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