7 French wines from its best-loved regions – The Irish News
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#Condrieu Le Grand Vallon, François #Villard 2020
This is delicious! Good honeysuckle, melon and peach fruit on the nose with some chipped granite to add a bit more interest. It smells like it has some density, but it's not at all heavy.
That's reflected on the palate as well. Great floral fruit with a weight and density to it but kept ethereally winsome by very good acidity, a loads of chipped rock and a brilliant savoury character that grabs the edges of one's palate. It's umami-tastic!
That savoury feeling is enhanced by a grind of fresh pepper on the finish that is, like the rest of the finish I suppose, highly engaging.
It has poise, restraint and structure, all underpinned by good fruit, solid acidity and a complex melange of rock, pepper and umami/savoury charm. Just lovely!
This would be fabulous with #sushi and smoked trout.
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I'm generally not a fan of growing "international varieties" in #Italy when Italy has so many #indigenous #vinifera #wine #grape varieties ... but it's hard to look at this map of the #NorthernRhone relative to #Piedmont and the #AostaValley and NOT wonder about the #CoolClimate — while it lasts, anyway — possibilities for just one international grape exception in particular ...
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Davy Strange
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