2020 Belle Coline
The Wine Advocate
RP 90
Reviewed by: Yohan Castaing
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2023 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the 2020 Belle Coline has turned out very nicely, offering up aromas of sweet dark berries, dark cherries, flowers and a touch of pepper and licorice with aeration in the glass. Medium to full-bodied, with a rich and sweet palate with a juicy texture, it’s a lovely, elegant wine that shows promise. Please keep it for two or three years and up to eight years.
Published: Dec 01, 2023
2020 Guigal Cotes du Rhone
The Wine Advocate
RP 90
Reviewed by: Joe Czerwinski
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2024 - 2030 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Significantly impacted by its elevated Syrah content, Guigal's 2020 Cotes du Rhone boasts expressive aromas of blackberries and blueberries, backed by ample black cherries. It's full-bodied yet supple and fluid, easy to drink and enjoy, with enough black olive and earth notes to ground it and keep it from being a simple fruit bomb.
Published: May 17, 2024
2023 Ponce Clos Lojen
The Wine Advocate
RP 93+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $17
Drink Date: 2025 - 2030 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2023 Clos Lojen is even more of a bargain than in previous years, as the price is the same and the quality is even higher!! It started being produced with 40-year-old vines, but those are by now 60 years old (I saw some of them, and they were REALLY impressive!); so, there's more depth and complexity; the vines are wiser (they've been tended nicely...) and manage to keep the freshness and approachability. They started harvesting the last week of August, and the result was 12.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.65 and 5.4 grams of acidity. The full clusters fermented in 4,500-liter oak vats and matured in foudres of different sizes—4,500, 10,000 and 15,000 liters—and lasted six months. The wine is fruit-driven, juicy, complex and spicy, balanced and tasty, textured and with a chalky feeling. This is way beyond what the price might suggest. 52,000 bottles produced in 2023. It was bottled between April and June 2024.
Published: Jan 10, 2025