An excellent, underrated and unknown source of top quality Rasteau, Domaine du Trapadis’s 2001 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Rasteau is a chunky, attractive, herb-tinged effort revealing notions of black cherries, dusty, loamy soil, licorice, and pepper. Medium-bodied and rustic, but tasty, it should be drunk over the next 2-3 years.
Importer: Garnier International Gourmet, Tucker, GA; tel. (770) 414-0017