Domaine De La Valériane Vieilles Vignes Côtes Du Rhône 2012, Ac
Critic Reviews (3)
A lovely, musky, sensual, spicy, old vines Côtes du Rhône grown on the slopes just outside Avignon. Flavour-packed...
Old vines grenache and syrah grown on hillsides near Avignon yield here a wine of structure and depth, with firm and...
This is a mid-weight, smooth youthful almost grapy red with some earthy cooked beet character. It’s medium weight,...
Community Reviews (1)
This has pretty much everything you can ask for in an affordable, well-structured CDR, the depth of flavour coming from old Syrah/Grenache vines close to Avignon: rich blueberry, raspberry, and dark cherry, some redcurrant zing, loads of herbs, black pepper, cinnamon, even a mysterious hint of soy sauce in the background. This complexity gives way initially to excessive Syrah meaty notes and then to one-note blackcurranty softness, but in general the balance and density are quite impressive.