The 2011 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Cuvee Gabrielle Rouge is composed of 55% Grenache, 35% Syrah and 10% Carignan from 10 to 80-year-old vines. It was aged in the larger, old oak demi-muids for 11 months and bottled unfiltered. Classic Provencal garrigue notes intermixed with licorice, soy sauce, black currants and black cherries emerge from this medium-bodied, fruity red. There is not a lot of tannin or acidity in this plump, corpulent 2011, so enjoy it over the next 2-4 years.
Consistently one of my favorite estates in the Southern Rhone, Les Grands Bois produces Cotes du Rhones that consistently over-perform their appellation and modest prices. The four red wines are all from the 2011 vintage, which Jeb Dunnuck has already commented about in the Southern Rhone. It’s a charming, fruit-forward, evolved year that produced delicious, “pop-and-pour” wines that are ideal for the current marketplace. It’s a nice “fill in” vintage while waiting for your bigger, richer, more structured and tannic 2010s to evolve, as well as the enormously concentrated, almost over-the-top 2007s to lose more baby fat.
Importer: Weygandt-Metzler, Unionville, Pennsylvania at 610-486-0700 and fax 610-486-6452; www.weygandtmetzler.com
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