Value EU Cults-
November 05, 2007
One of our main destinations in
southern France last July was to finally tour the Pic St. Loup region
and visit Jean Orliac's Domaine de l' Hortus and
Christophe Peyrus's Clos Marie cellar. Although I
have been touting both Euro-cult producers since I began stocking their
wines just two vintages ago, American consumers have been slow to purchase
these "unknowns". However, since Robert Parker's Wine Advocate latest
issue # 173 (released October 31st.) included rarely rated wines from the
Languedoc, once languishing inventory has been discovered and is
suddenly sold out. My import source has assured me if I reorder
immediately I can still restock. Here is your opportunity to take
advantage of these profound wines at bargain prices, before the
Euro exchange rate and new found popularity begins the inevitable upward
spiral.
Domaine de l' Hortus Grand
Cuvee Rouge Pic Saint Loup - $25.95 ($22.84 for 3 or more
bottles)
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate - Issue
173
A nose of cherry, plum, resin, and spices leads to a
dense, tightly-grained, salt-, smoke- and
stone-tinged palate full of bright, juicy, sappy, and
intensely, tartly ripe black fruits. The firm
structure and sharply-delineated fruit of this wine are
almost as one, and its long finish full of
intrigue and promise. I suspect it will be worth
giving it at least 3-5 years in the cellar.
Production, incidentally, totalled 800 cases. -
92 points
Just a couple of cases the these 2004 Clos Marie
wines are still available!
2004 Clos
Marie Coteaux du Languedoc Pic Saint Loup Metairies du Clos Vieilles
Vignes - $34.95 ($32.15 for 3
or more bottles)
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate -
Issue 173
The Clos Marie of Christophe Peyrus and Francois Julien is
a superstar in the Languedoc firmament, and nothing
I am about to write is going to change that, I can only
confirm with awe! Their 2004 Coteaux du Languedoc
Pic Saint-Loup Metairies du Clos Vieilles Vignes (Grenache
and Carignan with 10% Syrah) smells and tastes
strikingly of blackberries and plums with plum pits,
iodine, wet chalk, and roasted meat. From the nose, I might
have guessed "Pinot." And come to think of it, this is
incredibly refined in texture though decisively mineral,
athletically lean and bright ... it begins to sound yet
more Burgundian. But there are layers of pungent herbs,
toasted nuts and roasted meat here that can only come from
a Southern French environment.
What dazzling, flare-like length this has bravo! -
93 points
2004 Clos Marie Coteaux du Languedoc Pic
Saint-Loup Simon - $29.95 ($27.55 for 3 or more
bottles)
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate -
Issue 173
Fireworks continue with Clos Marie's 2004 Coteaux du
Languedoc Pic Saint-Loup Simon, a 50:50 Grenache:Syrah
blend that's denser and more opaque in every way than the
"Metairies." Intensely ripe black cherry, roasted meat and
wet stones in the nose lead to a densely-packed, lean,
freshly-fruited palate featuring sweetness of fruit that builds to
the
back, where resin, honey, bay, rosemary, meat and stone
combine for a long, complex finish. - 92 points
Also
available:
2005 Clos Marie Coteaux du Languedoc Pic
Saint-Loup Olivette - $19.95 ($17.56 for 3 or more
bottles)
This is the declassified base wine that does not make the
cut for the Simon and Metairies Clos. Black and
bluish fruit is lush and forward, but underlying
tannins support. One third new oak and two thirds neutral barrels. it is a joy
to drink! 40% Grenache, 40% Syrah, 20% Mourvedre. Not rated at this time
(2004 -
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