Visan Côtes du Rhône Villages Red Rhone Blend

A very good Côte-du-Rhône GSM. Dark fruit good with smoked meat.

So this is the “Bio” cuvée of the 2018 Visan. A few months ago I drank the non-Bio cuvée. I like the non-Bio cuvée much better. It was old school and garriguey and this is new school chocolatey and extracted fruit. Meh.

Surprised how much I like this. Nose has ripe dark berries, black olive, cracked dark stone. Soft and mouthfilling, the flavors are less jammy than many southern Rhônes these days. Palate is dominated by olive, iodine, and cracked stone notes, with pure, dark fruit undergirding it all. Clingy flavors, with lots of soft tannin. So kind of “old school” on the palate. Which I love. Might have to do with the fact that Visan is one of the cooler of the southern Rhône appellations. Nice!

Smells of fruit growing through slate.

Violet, strawberry jam, some persimmon like quality, fruit, pushing through slate.
A nice lil’ Villages.

Perfect pairing with teriyaki rib eye. Great value Rhône

Impressed with this new appellation from the Rhône. Fruit and elegance.

n: raspberry jam, bramble, stone
P: “”, red plum, strawberries, blackberry, fruit is very ripe to jammy up front, there’s a silk factor to it, then thyme, white pepper and stone take over adding interest and keeping it from being overly fruit driven

Had w chicken quesadillas and it worked solidly well, better combo than expected

Very well balanced.
Great GSM blend. Great deal
Drink from 2022 to 2025 max

Delicious Rhone blend. Soft, fruity, lovely on its own. Get more.

Mike had this 4 years ago