This wine is a blend made with mostly Grenache grapes and comes from the Cotes du Rhone region in France. This was a bottle from the 2011 vintage, so still fairly a young wine. The shop's notes include the following: Intensely spicy and precise, with lively red berry flavors and a hint of black pepper. The Grenache, which makes up the majority of the wine, is deeper and more powerful, offering cherry and black raspberry qualities lifted by zesty minerality.
This was a pretty complex big red. It smelled pretty fruity, a little bit of the spice came through on the nose, but does not prepare you for how much spice is present in the taste. The peppery tastes came through right up front, which created a bit of heat. The after taste was quite pleasant actually. It most closely reminded me of an orange cream soda that has been sitting in the car all day, is warm, and you take a swig after eating something a little spicy. I would have liked to try this wine after decanting it for a couple hours, and maybe after another year or so of aging. This wine was selling for $8.95 at the Vintage Cellar.
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