14,5/20 Ce rouge est très dense, puissant, avec une finale tout en muscles. Un petit gibier ne le fera pas plier. Un rouge pour toutes les gastronomies à base de viandes affirmées en saveurs. 2011 à 2015 – 14,90€
13,5/20 Belle couleur avec une sensation fraîche dans un style puissant. Il sera plutôt destiné à la table, vers un saumon pas trop cuit. 2011 à 2012 – 5,90€
15/20 Un joli minervois fruité, intensément épices, fruits noirs. Beaucoup de charme ! 2011 à 2014 – 11,90€
15,5/20 On le boira avec une facilité déconcertante, tant il est frais, enjoué. La finale est précise, subtile. 2011 à 2014 – 14,90€
87/100 Medium-bodied, with good cut to the berry and dried cherry flavors, which are accented by notes of savory herb and mineral. Crisp finish. Syrah, and Grenache. Drink now. 1,500 cases imported. – K.M. – US$21
Gregory Hecht and François Bannier’s – for more about whose remarkable partnership, consult my account in issue 183 – are living up to the challenge they set themselves, namely to render, as negociants of a unique hands-on labor-intensity, wines that can stand comparison with those of each respective appellations top estates. They continue to focus […]
89/100 Given that their coastal facility on the Etang de Thau puts them cheek-by-jowl not only with the vineyards of Picpoul de Pinet but with a wealth of seafood and seafood restaurants; and that they had established generic bottlings of Languedoc red and rose of exceptional quality-price rapport, Hecht & Bannier’s white 2010 Languedoc was […]
91/100 Constituting 40% Syrah from relatively early-picked schistic sites in St.-Chinian (selected specifically with pink wine in mind) as well as from Minervois, and with 40% Cinsault, the Hecht & Bannier 2010 Languedoc Rose delivers not just fresh, tart-edged cherry fruit, and invigoratingly pungent herbal inflections, but also luscious blood orange and an astonishing array […]
(89-90)/100 For their 2010 Languedoc, Hecht and Bannier introduced into the mix of sources that informed their 2008 and 2009 some additional Carignan from Corbieres and some Cinsault from Saint-Chinian, which has no doubt helped underscore the fortes of this vintage, namely the preservation of fresh fruit liveliness and the showcasing of mineral elements, yet […]
89/100 I have to offer you a fresh note on Hecht & Bannier’s 2007 Languedoc because it has become so much more complex and eloquent since I reviewed it (the first of its kind) in issue 183, and because I was so wrong about its being best enjoyed « over the coming 12-18 months. » Make that […]
