Fonsalette, Cotes du Rhone Rouge other_regions_australia with restrained ripeness

with restrained ripeness

An interesting and equally fresh and ripe nose combines notes of black fruit coulis

Lovely and understated

(from 80+ year old vines)

This is aromatically quite similar to the Beaumonts but more restrained and perhaps a bit cooler as well

Fonsalette, Cotes du Rhone Rouge other_regions_australia with restrained ripenessThis was the red wine we chose from the wine list in Fontjoncouse to follow the Leroy 2000 Bourgogne Blanc which, if anything, was even less evolved than this rich red, the most famous wine of its appellation. The 2001 vintage was of course very successful in the southern Rhne and this was luscious and spicy but the tannins were completely resolved and the fruity impact was in retreat. Nothing heavy or grating. At 187, it was certainly not given away