2007 Las Flors de la Pèira, AOC Coteaux de Languedoc
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Product:
74068B
Bottle Size:
Bottle
(75 cl)
Case Size:
12
Maturity:
Drink now
Vintage:
2007
Producer:
La Pèira
Grape Variety:
Other Varieties
Style:
Medium-Full Bodied,
Dry,
14.5% alcohol
| Jancis | The Wine Advocate |
| 17/20 | 93 - 94/100 |
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La Peira is a relatively newly-established wine Domaine in the latest Languedoc hotspot, Les Terrasses de Larzac, located just to the notht-west of Montpellier. Made from 40% Syrah, 40% Grenache and 20% Mourvèdre (the SGM acronym is ugly but quite popular), La Flors is aged in small barrels, having , once again been selected from low yielding fruit.
On the palalte there are dark fruits, almost rarified into a liqueur, undergrowth and even hints of tar and roses; plenty of personality in other words. Concentration and depth are the leitmotives here, but, fear not, the wine is superbly elegant all the way to its sweetly perfumed finish!
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)
On the palalte there are dark fruits, almost rarified into a liqueur, undergrowth and even hints of tar and roses; plenty of personality in other words. Concentration and depth are the leitmotives here, but, fear not, the wine is superbly elegant all the way to its sweetly perfumed finish!
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)
| Jancis | The Wine Advocate |
| 17/20 | 93 - 94/100 |
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Syrah and Grenache with about 20% Mourvèdre. Oaked. Very deep crimson. Light nose. Sweet start with a gentle texture but still quite a bit of firm fruit tannin. A brooding wine for superior barbecues. Alcohol, tar and liquorice on the finish. Not ready yet but there is both sweetness and freshness in this wine. Well done! Long.
(Jancis Robinson MW - jancisrobinson.com)
(Jancis Robinson MW - jancisrobinson.com)
| Jancis | The Wine Advocate |
| 17/20 | 93 - 94/100 |
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The 2007 Coteaux du Languedoc Terrasses du Larzac Las Flors de la Peira is around 40% each Syrah and Grenache, with the rest Mourvedre, but what Mourvedre it is! Harvested only in late October, that component of this wine displayed the variety’s archetypal chocolate, bay laurel, and raw meat, and for all of its alcohol, remained juicy and bright. It would have made a gorgeous bottling on its own, but the synergies in this blend are even more formidable.
Coconut, lily, marzipan, black raspberry with high-toned distilled fruit notes all pour from the glass. Chocolate richness and an amazingly vivid sense of decadently-sweet inner-mouth floral perfume inform a creamy-textured, liqueur-like palate.
A reservoir of fresh black fruits flows into this rich lake from somewhere, preserving vivacity and a sense of sheer refreshment, while saline and chalky notes creep into the long finish, enhancing a sense of cool complexity that helps ward off the slight sense of heat from analytically high alcohol. This beauty strikes me as likely to benefit from at least 6-8 years in bottle.
(David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, Sept 2010)
Coconut, lily, marzipan, black raspberry with high-toned distilled fruit notes all pour from the glass. Chocolate richness and an amazingly vivid sense of decadently-sweet inner-mouth floral perfume inform a creamy-textured, liqueur-like palate.
A reservoir of fresh black fruits flows into this rich lake from somewhere, preserving vivacity and a sense of sheer refreshment, while saline and chalky notes creep into the long finish, enhancing a sense of cool complexity that helps ward off the slight sense of heat from analytically high alcohol. This beauty strikes me as likely to benefit from at least 6-8 years in bottle.
(David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate, Sept 2010)
| Jancis | The Wine Advocate |
| 17/20 | 93 - 94/100 |
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