2011 Tardieu-Laurent Les Becs Fins Cotes du Rhone Villages France
2011 Tardieu-Laurent Les Becs Fins Cotes du Rhone Villages AOC France 9514.5%, 750 ml, $24
This old-vine sustainably farmed blend 40% Grenache with 60% Syrah is ripe and inviting with notes of tart raspberry, juicy blackberry, mulberry, and boysenberry, cherry cordial, plum and fig, dried herbs, potpourri, cedar, and sandalwood. It is rich, round, deeply fruity, and it finishes with a bite of tart raspberry topped with cinnamon whipped cream.
