Vibrant red wines tasted in 2018

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

The below wines were tasted in France, in 2018 (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-France wine label Vin de France — Domaine Navarre — Vin d’Œillades — (œillade)

7 € — 2016 — intense, blackberry, grape stalk - blackberry, grape stalk, astringent, balanced acidity

Vin de France [Ardèche] — Hélène et Christophe Comte - Domaine des Vigneaux — Syrah

7.6 € — 2016 — dust, violet, blackcurrant - dark, blackcurrant, violet, moka, juicy, balanced acidity

Vin de France [Ardèche] — Hélène et Christophe Comte - Domaine des Vigneaux — Grain… cheux — (grenache)

9.1 € — 2015 —

Corbières — La Baronne — Les Lannes

9.6 € — 2015 —

Vin de France [Ardèche] wine label Vin de France [Ardèche] — Antonin Azzoni - Le Raisin et l’ange — Hommage à Robert

11 € — 2016 — extremely aromatic - blackcurrant, moka - blackcurrant, moka, light, a little stiff, firm - very long (blackcurrant)

Vin de France — François Villard — L’appel des Sereines — Syrah

11 € — 2015 —

Vin de France — Olivier Lemasson - Les Vins contés — Poivre et sel — (60% grolleau, 30% gamay, 10% pineau d’aunis)

11 € — 2017 — generous - Burlat cherry - full, Burlat cherry, moka, silky, does not dry the mouth, balanced acidity

Vin de France [Pays roannais] — Géraldine et Christophe Pialoux - Le Picatier — Gaménits — (gamay)

12 € — 2015 —

Vin de France — Christian Ducroux — Exspectatia — [gamay, sans soufre]

12 € — 2016 —

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