Logo: a guide across vine slopes French Scout
  fr

Vibrant red wines tasted in 2019

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 2019 (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

Côtes du Rhône — Les Vignerons d’Estézargues

6.4 € — 2018 — red - red fruit, dries the mouth, balanced acidity

Vin-de-pays-du-Jardin-de-la-France wine labelVin de pays du Jardin de la France — Marc Ollivier, Rémi Branger, Gwénaëlle Croix - EARL La Pépière — La Pépie — Cabernet franc

6.5 € — 2018 — a very good imitation of a Mediterranean wine, but less alcohol - red fruit - velvety, fat and sweet, red fruit, balanced acidity

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

7 € — 2018 — serve at a cool temperature - blackcurrant jam, cherry and smoke - blackberry, liquorice, pepper, nutmeg, dense but easy drinking, very juicy

Madiran — Denis Capmartin - Château Barréjat — Tradition

7 € — 2016 — red fruit, spice - fruit-forward, accessible, dries the mouth, full but with balanced acidity

Vin de France [Ardèche] — Géraldine et Méryl Croizier - La Vrille et le papillon — Chapeau melon — (merlot de cuve)

7.4 € — 2018 — intense - yellow pepper, plum - yellow pepper, plum, dense, dries the mouth, easy, round

Barbera d’Alba — Monchiero — Dorero

8 € — 2015 — intense, cassis, sous-bois, sometimes volatile acidity - brick, sometimes volatile acidity, fresh, prune

vin de France wine labelVin de France — Jean-Marie Rimbert - Domaine Rimbert — Bu End

8 € — 2018 — an easy natural wine, very aromatic - blackcurrant, white pepper - blackcurrant, more aromatic intensity and less body than other bottlings from the same domain, tiny gas beads, balanced acidity

Beaujolais villages nouveau — Guy Breton — Cuvée Fanchon — (gamay)

9 € — 2019 — red fruit - red fruit, serious, structured, neither sparkle nor volatile acidity, firm

Vin de France [Ardèche] — Géraldine et Méryl Croizier - La Vrille et le papillon — Impair… ! — (cabernet sauvignon, élevage 50% en barrique)

9.9 € — 15-17 — served cool: a great aromatic intensity, a high purity - ripe varietal (so no pepper), blackcurrant pie, moka - pie crust, blackcurrant, present on the palate with a beautiful maturity of cabernet sauvignon (so no pepper), moka, full, bitter, dries the mouth, round

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

10 € — 2018 — blackcurrant, sometimes volatile acidity, mocha, incisive - a big intensity, blackcurrant, mocha, sometimes volatile acidity, dense, incisive, balanced acidity

Vin de France [Cheverny, Loire] — Hervé Villemade — Bovin Rouge (1 litre) — (gamay)

10 € — 2018 — raspberry, foxy - raspberry, foxy, deep, juicy, firm

Vin de France [Languedoc] — Mireille et Patrick Meyer - Domaine Julien Meyer — Miso Paradis — (syrah, mourvèdre) (vinifié par Axel Prüfer du Temps des Cerises et élevé chez Patrick et Mireille Meyer, les raisins provenant d’Aspiran, chez Julien Peyras et David Caer (Clos Mathélisse)

11 € — 2016 — very intense but without volatile acidity - blackberry - onctuous, blackberry, balanced

Vin de table [Corbières] — Alban Michel - Les Sabots d’Hélène — Pif not dead! — (caladoc, carignan)

11 € — 2018 —

vin de France [Roussillon] wine labelVin de France [Roussillon] — Anthony Guix - Matin calme — Sans temps

17 € — 2014 —

Delivery of vibrant wine anywhere

In order to protect yourself and other people from Covid-19 coronavirus or other epidemics, you might prefer online stores over street stores. Here below are examples of using the search box at FrenchScout.com:

A blue map pin