Maison Tardieu Laurent - Vacqueyras Vieilles Vignes

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Le millésime

Les conditions climatiques plutôt chaudes des derniers millésimes pouvaient conduire à imaginer que le millésime 2008 serait dans la même lignée: eh bien, non ! 2008 sera d’un style que l’on pensait révolu, issu d’une vendange froide à très froide, aux maturités très lentes. Les pluies de printemps n’ont pas facilité la tâche, avec du mildiou, lequel a causé la perte d’une ... Afficher plus ›

Terroir

Les Grès, Les Pendants, Le Plateau de Sarrians.

Élevage

Fûts d'un vin. Allier et Tronçais.

Dégustation

Un Grand Vin austère, aux tanins puissants, et aux arômes nobles de garrigues et d’épices.

Teneur en alcool

14,5%

Mise en bouteille

Sans filtration.

Cépages

Grenache : 90 %
Syrah : 10 %

Five different growers provided the fruit for this old-vine bottling, which is blended from 80% Grenache and 20% Syrah that was grown on vines averaging 50 years in age. Smoky and meaty aromas get it off to a terrific start, and fruit recalling black plums and cherries really follows through in convincing fashion, with deep flavors and a very persistent finish.

Michael Franz
Wine Review Online , 91/100 , 2011-05-31

Bright purple. Intense red and dark berry aromas are complemented by fresh tobacco and garrigue. Sweet and sappy on entry, then tighter in the mid-palate, offering lively raspberry and blackberry flavors and a kick of tangy acidity. Silky tannins add shape to the spicy, nicely focused finish. This is suppler than it was when I tasted it from barrel last year.

Josh Raynolds
Stephen Tanzers International Wine Cellar , 88/100 , 2011-01-01

Dark and alluring, offering cocoa, black tea and truffle notes that lead the way for blackberry, currant and fig paste flavors. The lush finish has a nice mesquite twinge to keep it all honest.

James Molesworth
Wine Spectator , 91/100 , 2010-10-15

The 2008 Vacqueyras Vieilles Vignes reveals a good tannic backbone, but I would still opt to drink it on the earlier side given the fragility of the fruit. Medium-bodied with excellent ripeness, it possesses plenty of black fruit characteristics interwoven with notions of smoke, herbs, camphor, and spice

Robert PArker
Wine Advocate , 88-90/100 , 2009-10-01

Dark crimson purple with some good appetising acidity. Less lush than the Rasteau with more apparent influence of the scrawniness of the vintage. A more refreshing mouthful! Tarry finish. Seems more obviously marked by Syrah than Grenache. Very dry finish. Very 2008! Desperately needs food. Not a heavyweight but frank and speaks of the place rather than the cellar.

Jancis Robinson , 16,5/20