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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.

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

USD 14 — 2019 — pure - red fruit - red fruit, balanced (fresh and not soft)

Madiran — Denis Capmartin - Château Barréjat — Tradition

USD 15 — 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]

USD 17 — 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

USD 18 — 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)

USD 18 — 2019 — intense - strawberry - not velvety, strawberry, fluid, firm

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

USD 18 — 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)

USD 19 — 2019 — strawberry, grasping - full, strawberry, grasping, frank

Pécharmant — Barouillet

USD 21 — 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

USD 21 — 2017 — harmonious - blackberry - blackberry, dry, round

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

USD 26 — 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

USD 28 — 2018 — red fruit - red fruit, juicy, refreshing

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