2013 Michel Gassier Costières de Nîmes Syrah

	top quality syrah
	round, elegant and with a seductive freshness
	inspired by the famous cru côte rôtie
	tasty with spiced stew and grill dishes

Tasting note Michel Gassier Syrah

French full-red wine. Fine and intense fragrance with ripe berry fruit and light herbs. Fine with spiced dishes both stewed and off the grill.

Description

Here, too, Michel manages to draw inspiration from the most famous northern Rhône wine Côte Rôtie. Just like with this great example, he adds a few percentages of viognier to the syrah which gives the wine a pleasant accessibility.

Also for this red wine, buds and unripe grapes are cut out. As a result, much less but more mature grapes are harvested. After the manual picking, a classic vinification followed by a nine-month maturation on French oak barrels. This is top quality syrah concentrated accessible and fresh.

In art terms, you could call Michel Gassier a master forger. This talented producer of Costières de Nîmes copies the expensive in an inimitable way
(35 euro +) northern Rhône wines Côte Rôtie and Condrieu.

With this he makes high quality affordable. Should we condemn or praise Gassier? Come and taste for yourself!

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