"Dark and juicy, with a delicious core of plum, blackberry and blueberry fruit wound together with dark spice, licorice snap and pastis notes, followed by a rounded, fleshy finish. Drink now through 2012. 330 cases made. -JM" (10/11)
90 Wine & Spirits
"Chewy, ferrous minerality pervades the red cherry fruit of this wine, a muscular, earthy Cairanne made by Laurence Feraud of Domaine du Pegau and Andre Brunel of Les Cailloux in Chateauneuf-du-Pape. It feels a little wild - of the wilderness - with its green nettle notes and green peppercorn pop, a red for roast squab or other game." (06/11)
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WINERY:
"Feraud-Brunel is a promising negociant enterprise that began in 1998 with the partnership between Laurence Feraud and Andre Brunel of Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Brunel is best known for Les Cailloux and Feraud is known for Pegau. Given their significant contacts in the southern Rhône Valley, their goal is to purchase wine from old, established, primarily Grenache vineyards. What sets this venture apart from other negociants is that it is run with the savoir-faire of truly exceptional winemakers working in perfect partnership."
"Laurence Feraud & Andre Brunel have selected the terroirs in the Cotes-du-Rhone which they find most interesting and found talented winemakers who work year round with their oenologist, Philippe Cambie. Before the harvest, they work in the same manner as on their estates in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, setting the yields and the farming practices, and closely following the ripening and
sanitary state of the grapes. The fermentation of each wine is adapted to the qualities of the terroir, and when they feel the moment is right, they bring the wines to their cellars in Chateauneuf-du-Pape. After a period of ageing that marries the expression of terroir with a hard core of ripe fruit, the wines are bottled without fining or filtration. The result is a range of Cotes-du-Rhone wines of stunning quality, truly representative of their appellation and vintage." -Winery
This was also rated 88 points in the International Wine Cellar.
