2012 Massamier la Mignarde, Cuvée des Oliviers Red, Coteaux des Peyriac
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Jane MacQuitty - The Times '50 Best Red Wines for Christmas' - November 2013
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VDP des Coteaux de Peyriac
VDP des Côteaux de Peyriac is a well-known zonal designation in the East of the Aude department, located around the fine old city of Narbonne and producing some interesting and well-made wines.
Syrah/Shiraz
A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.
It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.
South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.
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Charismatic and extremely likeable, Franz Venes has been a long-standing partner for BBR and its affiliated company FMV, who place his wines in an impressive list of well-know London restaurants. Cuvée des Oliviers is a blend of 30% Cabernet-Sauvignon, 30% Carignan, 20% Cinsault, 10% Syrah and 10% Grenache.
It is juicy but with a Southern French concentration, manifested by hints of herbs, liquorice and spice adorning a bedrock of ripe fruit, of both red and black complexion. The 2012 has bright fruit, heathery persistence en bouche and a finely judged and refreshing finish.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
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