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Vibrant red tasted in 2023

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 2023 (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

Madiran — Denis Capmartin - Château Barréjat — Tradition — [60% tannat, 40% cabernet]

9 € — 2020 — black currant, red plum, dried herb, dark chocolate, roasted meat - fruit-forward, accessible, dries the mouth, full but with balanced acidity

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]

10 € — 2022 — light, fruity and joyful - remarkable freshness, very seductive - supple and fluid body, with finesse and freshness, all fruit with silky, lively tannins

Saint-chinian wine labelSaint chinian — Jean-Marie Rimbert - Domaine Rimbert — Les Travers de Marceau — (carignan dominant, cinsault, syrah)

11 € — 2021 — a very fine balance between freshness and density, the tannins are present but velvety

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

12 € — 2022 — mocha - smooth, mocha, dense, balanced acidity

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

12 € — 2021 — gourmand, on black fruit coulis, spices - round, ample, velvety, expressive and fresh fruit, with a juicy and pulpy body, a slight sparkle

Vin de France [Ardèche] — Antonin Azzoni - Le Raisin & l’ange — Fable — (syrah, grenache)

13 € — 2022 — pure, serve at a cool temperature, gourmand and not gourmet - raspberry and fresh blackberry, fine floral notes - small red fruit, juicy but heavy, firm

Pécharmant wine labelPécharmant — Vincent Alexis - Barouillet

14 € — 2021 — fresh and fruity, with blackcurrant, blackberry, pepper and sweet spices - round, supple and delicious, with a fine, fresh texture, crisp fruit and a good mood. A fine trickle of carbon dioxide adds just the right amount of pep. The finish is invigorating, with even more fruit and freshness, on morello cherry and blackcurrant, the latter lingering for quite a long time, underlined by pepper

Vin de France [Gard, Vallée du Rhône] — Lori Haon - Domaine du petit Oratoire — Loratoire — (cinsault, grenache)

16 € — 2021 — - at the same time very fluid, fresh and delicious

Terre Siciliane — Azienda agricola COS — Frappato

20 € — 2021 — red fruit - red fruit, juicy, refreshing

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