92/100 This ripe, suave red, delivers a full flush of luscious red fruit flavors and silky spicy notes. Broad midpalate, with a powerful, chocolate-filled finish that features notes of toffee and cream. Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah and Carignan. Drink now through 2018. 4,500 cases made – K.M. – US$22
15,5/20 – 14.90€
15/20 Onctueux, crémeux, avec une belle matière ronde et élégante. La densité fraîche du Roussillon est là. 2010-2013 – 14.90€
16.5/20 Very dark crimson. Warm and comfortably rich on the palate. Very sweet, spicy start and lots of luscious, expansive fruit . Fairly dry tannins on the end but there is enough fruit to mitigate them. And this is a lively wine, not overcome by its alcohol level – very long and a genuine expression […]
14/20 – $14.90
14/20 Matière dense, très mûre, assez fine, longue, avec des tanins chocolatés, encore légèrement astringents – 14.90€
16,5/20 Grenache, Syrah and Carignan. Rich, ripe and concentrated. Dry tannins – truly a Roussillon wine. Very dry finish. 14.5% – Drink 2010-14
92/100 The 2005 Cotes du Roussillon Villages – from what Hecht and Bannier call “a perfect vintage for Roussillon” – pours forth aromas and juicy sumptuous profusion of ripe black raspberry and cassis, but smoke, pencil lead, salt, chalk, and wet stone are never any farther from the surface than is the mother rock in […]
(92-93)/100 The 2007 Cotes du Roussillon Villages from geologically diverse sites in a half dozen outstanding villages is composed primarily of Grenache, with smaller amounts of Carignan, Syrah, and Mourvedre. “The Carignan” from high elevation Belesta and Caramany “is key,” maintains Hecht, because Grenache from schist in Maury (which make up about a quarter of […]
91/100 The Hecht & Bannier 2006 Cotes du Roussillon Villages smells of cedar, coconut (from a significant proportion of new wood), cherry, marjoram, and smoke. Stimulating hints of cherry pit bitterness along with smoke, herbal pungency, and graphite and crushed stone add to the dynamic impression conveyed by unusually fresh fruit, leading to a long, […]
