Les Mourres Gigondas Red Rhône Blend

Wild berry, rhubarb, cherry, crushed stone, spice and great acid. Amazing with a ribeye.

Cherry jam, anise, oak

Comes across hot (15%) and simple. Drinkable, but better options at the price for your inexpensive mid week southern Rhone fix.

Lovely dark color, nice dark-fruited Grenache (80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre), but this is 15% ABV, and shows excessive ABV.

(Mini Rant — So, Garagiste is doing more and more “Mystery Wines”, which always sound so damn good, yet in the past two years I’ve purchased — unknowingly — at least 8-10 different Rhône reds where the ABV is not disclosed because it’s a “Mystery Wine”, and I get the wine and it’s 15% and higher, and frankly HOT — too much alcohol — I guess the answer is to simply ignore the “Mystery Rhônes” because they are likely to have too high of ABV, but really???) — am I “off-base” here?? I’ve purchased many, many wines from Garagiste which I LOVE, but I frankly don’t know what to do about this??

Very juicy but in a mellow and mature way, soft tannins, extremely nice

C

Bright fruits and distinct minerality. A little spicy finish.

Paired this up with Gordon Ramsay's recipe for sticky pork ribs. A pretty lovely match. 80/10/10 blend of Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah.

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Drank this on a Thursday but definitely definitely better than the run of the mill weekday wine. Gigondas is drinking well this year.