Coudoulet de Beaucastel Rouge, 2012

Tasting Note:

Cool, ripe, bright red and dark berry flavours embedded in a suave structure. There is plenty of verve and vitality to offset the sweet hedgerow fruit, finishing on lingering notes of black and red cherry with kirsch touches. Impeccable balance. A blend of 30% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 20% Cinsault and 30% Mourvèdre from a plot of vines adjacent to Beaucastel on the east side. The vines therefore fall just outside of the Châteauneuf appellation but the soil structure is very similar to that of the poor, pebbly vineyards of Beaucastel.