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Vibrant red wines tasted in 2020

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 2020 (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 wine labelCôtes du Rhône — Les Vignerons d’Estézargues — Cuvée des galets

6 € — 2019 — pure - red fruit - red fruit, balanced (fresh and not soft)

Madiran — Denis Capmartin - Château Barréjat — Tradition

7 € — 2017 — brooding, quickly opens to reveal roasted meat, dried herbs, black fruit and even chocolate - the tannins are present but not overwhelming, ripe rather than dusty; good acidity gives the wine a fresh attack, leading into ripe black fruit - the finish balances tannin and fruit well

Vin-de-France wine labelVin de France — Domaine Navarre — Vin d’Œillades, (œillade, une variété de cinsault, grains plus allongés) (macération carbonique) — (schistes bruns) [sulfite total : 30 mg/l]

9 € — 2019 — red fruit - red fruit, juicy, incisive, balanced

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

9.6 € — 2018 — volatile acidity, blackcurrant, mocha - huge intensity, blackcurrant, volatile acidity, mocha, dense, incisive, balanced

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

10 € — 2019 — intense - strawberry - not velvety, strawberry, fluid, firm

Vin de France [Languedoc] — Aymeric & Jordan Amiel - Domaine des Amiel — à Coural

10 € — 2019 — red fruit - red fruit, incisive (a hint of volatile acidity), dry, balanced

vin de France [Ardèche] wine labelVin de France [Ardèche] — Antonin Azzoni - Le Raisin et l’ange — Brân — (gamay)

10 € — 2019 — strawberry, grasping - full, strawberry, grasping, frank

Pécharmant — Barouillet

12 € — 2019 — red fruit - red fruit, dries up the palate and tongue, balanced

Vin de france [Ardèche] — Géraldine et Méryl Croizier - La Vrille et le papillon — Z rouge — 70% syrah (en demi-muid), 30% merlot

12 € — 2017 — harmonious - blackberry - blackberry, dry, round

Pfälzer Landwein [Palatinate] — Daniel & Jonas Brand - Weingut Brand — pur — Pinot Noir

17 € — 2018 — an enormous aromatic intensity, great purity, more complexity than Buronfosse Les Fontaines - morello cherry, undergrowth, mineral - no smoothness but silky, morello cherry, foxed, dry, no stiffness but firm

Terre Siciliane — Azienda agricola COS — Frappato

18 € — 2018 — red fruit - red fruit, juicy, refreshing

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