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GRAND CLASSIQUE CROZES-HERMITAGE 2015 AC
Vintage Assessments Tasting Note Producer CAVE DE TAIN
Extremely deep intense purple colour. Fairly intense, slightly spicy, ripe plum and black cherry nose with some slightly smoky, red licorice notes. Dry, medium bodied, quite well structured, tangy, rather spicy, intense, ripe plum-cherry flavours with a lingering, gently cedary, crisp finish. This classic, extremely well priced, northern Rhone Syrah from the small Crozes-Hermitage appellation has 13% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar. TONY ASPLER / 90-points / BEST BUY - Spicy, cedary, plum nose; medium-bodied, dry, fresh with smoky blackberry flavours, finishing firmly. CSPC 572230
Type Red Table Wine
Agent Nob Est
Country France
Region Rhône
Rating ***(91 points)
Ripe, Gently Complex
LCBO Text Status Recommended by Vintage Assessments!
A Best Buy
TASTING NOTE: Saturated, deep black-red in colour with a pure, exuberant and exciting scent mingling notes of smoke, bramble, blackberry, blackcurrant and redcurrant. The flavours are joyful. There's a fruit core of singing lyricism, both vivid and fresh without being acidulous; the wine is tannic enough to give its fruit shape and gravitas but not roughness or austerity; and it has overtones which bring light and shade to the wine via faint notes of smoke, of cleansing bitterness, of the saltiness which is such a hallmark of parts of Crozes, and of the 'stony' flavours which lovers of terroir wine crave. A gorgeous success. Score - 93 (Andrew Jefford, Decanter, July 18, 2016) Price $ 23.95
Bottle Size 750 mL
Tasting Date vintages release - November 25, 2017
Cases bought 275 (12 bottles per case)

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