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Colour
Red
Vintage
2010
Producer
Grand Veneur
Country
France
Region
Rhone
Sub Region
Cotes Du Rhone
Product code
23JAU3B2010
Tasting Notes
Robert Parker
Score: 89 - 91 / 100"The gorgeous 2010 Cotes du Rhone Les Champauvins possesses lots of kirsch, pepper and lavender notes, sweet tannin, a medium to full-bodied mouthfeel, and good focus as well as length. It is fresher and livelier than the lovely 2009 recommended several issues ago."
Bibendum
Score: 16.5 / 20A recent bottling with only 10% in new oak and 90% in concrete, this allows the pure fruit characters to shine through.
Producer Information
Winemaker Sebastian Jaume and his brother Christophe, who looks after the sales and marketing side, are two of the slickest operators in the Rhone. Both excel at their particular vocations, and the result is an impressive portfolio that includes top Chateauneuf du Pape estate Domaine Grand Veneur, the beautiful Clos de Sixte vineyard in Lirac and a top quality negociant business, named after their father Alain.
The wines are ripe, intense and full of spicy Rhone fruit. Robert Parker accurately summed them up in his book 'The World's Greatest Wine Estates' as being modern in style but 'never losing the soul and typicity of Provence. They are impeccably well-made, pure, and deeply colored.'
