After having spent 14 months in new barrels, Bizeul’s 2010 Cotes du Roussillon Villages La Petite Siberie delivers strong caramelized resin, vanilla and brown spices up-front, with cocoa powder and smoky black tea further accenting its sweetly ripe, thickly-rich, black raspberry and cherry confiture. That the palate here manages to display such sheer lusciousness and the finish persistent sap and polish is no doubt a tribute to this wine’s sheer density and concentrated ripeness. That said, my lips are numbed thereafter by the effect of wood tannins and my salivary glands remain unmoved. For those who place greatest emphasis on mid-palate fat and seamless advanced ripeness of fruit this will harbor more appeal that it did for me – but I certainly can’t help but be impressed by those virtues.
Herve Bizeul professed to have experienced good yields and fruit quality in both 2011 and 2012, when he managed to escape hail. I tasted only those 2012s that had already been bottled as of this spring; and I did not taste any recent installments of his limited bottlings featuring Tempranillo or Syrah. (Bizeul continues to be responsible for the Walden brand as well as for Domaine de la Chique, both of whose most recent instantiations are reviewed under their own names as part of the present report.)
Importers include Domaine Select Wine Estates, New York, NY; tel. (212) 279-0799; Simon N Cellars, Charlottesville, VA; tel. (434) 977-4476; and M. S. Walker, Somerville, MA; tel. (617) 776-6700
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