07 Vieilles Vignes600L6520138

3600L2007 Vieilles VignesGrenache

2007Vieilles Vignes600L652012 2007 Vieilles Vignes 20138

Clos de Trias winery is at location 2 (Northern part of Ventoux besides Chateauneuf-du-Pape)

A.O.C. Ventoux

96% Grenache Noir , 4% Syrah

2019

Ripe, voluptuous and sexy, with notions of roasted meats, garrigue, spice and liqourice-laced berry fruit, this beauty hits the palate with full-bodied richness and depth, no hard edges and blockbuster length on the finish. Despite the overall size and richness here, it stays remarkably well defined, if not elegant. Its worth seeking out and should continue to dish out ample pleasure through 2019.
This is the exact same base wine as the normal 07 Vieilles Vignes but aged stunningly 65 months in 600L barrels, and bottled in August 2013.

The wine maker held back three 600L barrels of the 2007 Vieilles Vignes. In various conversations with local vignerons, he was told that ageing Grenache in barrels was not advisable and extended ageing, not possible. The wine would dry up and die!, they said, and he needed to find out himself. It is true! The wine does die! …for a while…

In the complexity of the elevage (ageing), the wine will appear to die but then come back, with patience. This was the base of the experiment. So, The 2007 Vieilles Vignes has been aged in 600L barrels for 65 months, The wine was dead from about the second year through more than four and a half years; dried up and terribly oaky. But this was an experiment after all, after that, in the tasting of the wine in late Spring of 2012, the wine was starting to transform! The texture, mouthfeel, sweet fruit was beginning to reappear! And better yet, new complexities arrived…minerality! A bit more patience and wine maker decided to bottle this second version of the 2007 Vieilles Vignes in August 2013. This experiment actually exceeds expectations!

Appellation:
AOC Ventoux, southern Rhone

Country of Origin:
France

Type:
Red/Rouge (Still)

Grape Varieties:
96% Grenache Noir , 4% Syrah

Tasting Notes:
Ripe, voluptuous and sexy, with notions of roasted meats, garrigue, spice and licorice-laced berry fruit, this beauty hits the palate with full-bodied richness and depth, no hard edges and blockbuster length on the finish. Despite the overall size and richness here, it stays remarkably well defined, if not elegant. Its worth seeking out and should continue to dish out ample pleasure through 2019.