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Famille Perrin

Coudoulet de Beaucastel Cotes-du-Rhone Red Rhone Blend 2016

Aromatics of new leather and dried fruit. Not your average Côtes du Rhône as you would expect from Chateau de Beaucastel. More full bodied than expected to go with our chicken dish. Far richer than Guigal’s version of Côtes du Rhône. — 14 days ago

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Château Barde-Haut

Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2016

The nose on this is stunning. Big and black fruit with a dollop of tar. The pallete follows the nose with blackberries, plum, dusty rock, and dark soil. An enjoyable balance of fruit and earth. Steak wine! This is excellent.
Listening to The Lone Bellow
— a month ago

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Jan A

Jan A

Just curious Dave, as a non native English speaker. I was always under the assumption that palette is something that a painter uses and the palate is what you use to describe the tasting sensory system. I see palette more often used in wine descriptions. Can you enlighten me?
Dave

Dave

You are correct! And I, as an English speaker, am known to misspell frequently 🤦‍♂️ Palate is correct! @Jan A
Jan A

Jan A

Thanks

Famille Bougrier (Domaines Bougrier)

Grande Reserve Vieilles Vignes Vouvray Chenin Blanc

Delicious, semi dry, lots of bubbles. Nice light amber color, apricot taste. — 3 months ago

Tom, Anthony and 1 other liked this

Château Barde-Haut

Saint-Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend 2012

We had the 2012 Vintage on 12/5-6/25. A nice wine from St. Emillion. A nice herbaceous bouquet of black fruit and tabaco. BlackBerry, plum, chocolate and leather on the palate. Old World. Medium bodied. A good wine for the price — 15 days ago

Famille Perrin

Réserve Côtes du Rhône Red Rhone Blend 2023

2023 vintage. Screw cap. Trader Joe’s selection. Have picked up a few bottles of this every year over the last decade just to have as haus wine-esp during the holidaze. This is the best vintage I’ve had. Structure. Fruit. Accessibility. It has rolled at $7.99 a bottle as long as I can remember. Grabbed a bottle without checking the price but assuming it’s still $10 or less. Drinking like it’s a $25 bottle. Picking up more this week. 11.18.28. — a month ago

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Ron R

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Good to know. Thanks.
Ray Vanderhoff

Ray Vanderhoff

Excellent Haus-Wine choice!

Famille Perrin

Côtes du Rhône Villages Grenache Blend 2022

Wonderful with two different duck entrées. — 2 months ago

Bonnie Hodur
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Château Thivin

Famille Geoffray Côte de Brouilly Gamay 2017

Drinking wonderfully right now beautiful complexity, depth, and nice, dark fruit earth and herbs and just the right amount of tannins in finish — 7 days ago

Famille Jouffreau

Cahors Malbec 1986

Lyle Fass
9.3

Lovely nose of tobacco, leather and blackberry and great drive on the palate but faded after 3 hours. — 25 days ago

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Famille Bougrier (Domaines Bougrier)

Val de Loire Sauvignon Blanc

This was a very good Sauvignon Blanc. We had it with cheese and jellies on crackers. — 2 months ago