French red wine values tasted in 2009

The selected French bottlings have given me much pleasure for the price. I have purchased them again for personal consumption. Featured values include 3 Languedoc reds and 4 Rhones.

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The below wines were tasted in France, in 2009 (between April and December).
 

 Vdp - Domaine Sainte-Léocadie - (bib cubitainer de 5l)

2007 (et pas une autre année) - USD 5.6 - it makes you tremble if you have drunk too much of it - a lot of fruit, dense but easy to drink, impactful but the balance is food friendly

 Vin de pays d'oc - Intervins - Mis en bouteille à F-11000 - Cabernet sauvignon

2008 - USD 6.6 - the nose is varietal (with red pepper) - the fruit is scrambled, the structure is standard : it dries the mouth a bit, the alcohol is moderate, the balance is frank

Ed, filiale de Carrefour

 Vin de pays des Coteaux de l'Ardèche - Vignerons ardéchois - Cuvée Modestine - gamay

2007 - USD 8.3 - a nose of ripe black cherry - ripe black cherry on the palate too, the fruit may be dirty on account of grape mold manipulation, a firm balance

 Beaujolais nouveau - Georges Duboeuf

2009 - USD 8.4 - decent mass product - red fruit - banana, a little stiff, refreshing

 Côtes de provence - Domaine Turenne - (Bag in Box en poche de 5l)

2008 - USD 8.5 - red fruit dominates the smell - in the mouth : a lot of red fruit (cherry) too but no fruit jelly, the wine is wide and slightly dries the palate, it shows a hint of volatile acidity on opening but stays vinous and balanced for weeks

 Pays d'Oc - Marc et Jérôme Vic - Le Petit Pont - Réserve

2007 - USD 9.3 -

06140 Tourrettes-sur-Loup, 8 r Bourgade, Cave de Tourrettes, tél : 04 93 24 10 12

 Côtes du rhône - SCA les Vignerons d'Estézargues - Domaine de Pierredon

2008 - USD 10 -

 Côtes du rhône - SCA les Vignerons d'Estézargues - Les grandes vignes - (cinsault)

2007 - USD 12 - aromas of red fruit - red fruit, goes away fast (short), balanced

 Côtes du rhône villages signargues - SCA les Vignerons d'Estézargues - Domaine de Pierredon

2008 - USD 14 - red fruit - red fruit, less alcohol than Genestas, firm

 Côtes du rhône villages - SCA les Vignerons d'Estézargues - Domaine Les Genestas

2008 - USD 12 -

 Côtes de provence - Richard Martel - La Garnaude - Olympe

2007 - USD 11 -

06140 Tourrettes-sur-Loup, 8 r Bourgade, Cave de Tourrettes, tél : 04 93 24 10 12

 Côtes de provence - Richard Martel - La Garnaude - Olympe

2004 - USD 12 -

06140 Tourrettes-sur-Loup, 8 r Bourgade, Cave de Tourrettes, tél : 04 93 24 10 12

 Fleurie - Geneviève et Jean-Claude Chanudet - Domaine J. Chamonard - La Madone - [gamay]

2005 - USD 21 - aromas of black cherry and roast beef - ripe black cherry and roast beef, flower, does not dry tongue or palate, firm

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