2016 Domaine Remejeannes Les Chevrefeuilles Rouge

Description

“Proprietor Rémy Klein is one of the most consistently top-flight winemakers among the Côtes du Rhone producers.” Robert Parker

Decanter 90/100

Chèvrefeuille is French for ‘honeysuckle’, the perfume of which you cannot escape during springtime in the southern Ardèche.

This blend comes from hillside vines with an average altitude of 250 metres, loess/limestone soil, and both south and east expositions. This is perhaps the spiciest and happiest of the Réméjeanne wines. There is no sulphur used during the vinifcation, and the wine then spends a year in tank prior to bottling (unfined). It’s a lovely wine of great finesse with vivid, complex aromas and flavours of mulberry and raspberry spiked with musk along with hints of liquorice, violets, thyme, bay leaf and white pepper. The finish is bright, refreshing and perfumed with a flood of juicy fruit shrouded in fine powdery tannins (typical of the limestone-rich soils of Sabran).

Tannic: 4/4

Body: 4/4

Acidic: 4/4

Complex: 4/4

Finish: 4/4

Country: France

Region: Cotes du Rhone

Type of Wine: Red

Bottle Size: 750mL