French Wine Tasting 18th November 2002


Wine
Vintage
Price
Notes
Chapoutier, La Ciboise, Coteaux-du-Tricastin (red)
1999
$A15.49
brown, sweet vanilla, gamey, bights, tea
Chapoutier, La Ciboise, Coteaux-du-Tricastin (white) 2000
$A15.49
honey - flabby? not too acidic, grassy, smooth
Crozes-Hermitage, Cote-du-Rhone
2000
$A22.99
earthy, soils after rain, slight gasoline, cardboardy, reasonable oak - not bad, tea, +
Saint Joseph J. Vidal - Fleury, Rhone 1999
$A36.99
slight vanilla, length (indescribable), break, OK
Henry Fessy, Beaujolais - Villages, Domaine des 40 Ecus
2000
$A11.10
earthy, vanilla, simply, pleasant, middling
Domaine du Chateau d'Eau, Rhone Valley, Voignier
2000
$A14.99
rotten vegetables, metallic, limey, bites, not bad acid