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About This Wine:Le Barroux is a small Provencal town located in the heart of the Vaucluse. Its twelfth century castle overhangs the stone-built village houses and picturesque alleys. In between the two famous mountains, the Mont Ventoux and the Dentelles de Montmirail, le Barroux is renowned as being an excellent tourist site, providing a magnificent view point. Nature surrounds the village, forests and fruit trees, intermingled with vines which paint a varying landscape of changing colors. The estate vineyards extend over 15 ha of the hillside, at an elevation of between 300 to 400 meters. It consists of 11 hectares of vines and 4 hectares of fruit trees and forest, on alternating terraces and slopes.
Appellation of Origin: Cotes du Ventoux
Varieties: 75% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 5% Carignan, 5% Cinsault
Vineyards: Estate vineyards
Farming: Organic (EcoCert)
Soils: Stony, poor soils from the Oligocene Era
Age of Vines: 25 year old vineyards
Altitude: 300-400 meters
Aging: 23 months in tank and neutral oak barrels
Ratings / Reviews
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 91 Points:"The 2005 Cotes de Ventoux is a gorgeous blend of 75% Grenache, 15% Syrah, and the rest Carignan and Cinsault. The wine's bouquet is reminiscent of a great Cote Rotie even though the Syrah component is small and no Viognier is utilized. Exotic floral aromas intermixed with blackberry and cherry fruit jump from the glass. In the mouth, the wine is soft, velvety, medium to full-bodied, pure, elegant, and exotic. Drink this beauty over the next 4-5 years.
Former pharmacist Philippe Gimel uses a combination of organic and bio-dynamic farming methods in this vineyard."
- Robert Parker
(8/2008)
Wine Spectator Magazine - 90 Points:"Quite ripe, but focused, with a nice grip running through the plum sauce, fig and black currant notes. Hints of mesquite and iron flitter through the graphite-filled finish. Shows the substance of this great vintage. Drink now through 2010. 1,652 cases made." –JM (Web 2010)
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 90 Points ('04 vintage)
