There's rich fruit here, but it's covered by a thick veneer of cedary oak that needs time to better integrate. In the southern Rhône, where so much elevage is still based on cement, this wine is a bit jarring. But it's still very good, just in a slightly different idiom.
There's rich fruit here, but it's covered by a thick veneer of cedary oak that needs time to better integrate. In the southern Rhône, where so much elevage is still based on cement, this wine is a bit jarring. But it's still very good, just in a slightly different idiom.
There's rich fruit here, but it's covered by a thick veneer of cedary oak that needs time to better integrate. In the southern Rhône, where so much elevage is still based on cement, this wine is a bit jarring. But it's still very good, just in a slightly different idiom.