Domaine Peyre Rose Coteaux du Languedoc "Clos des Cistes" red 2003

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Comments on this Domaine Peyre Rose "Clos des Cistes" 2003 red wine:

The RVF Guide to the Best Wines of France 2014 : Soft, harmonious, and very full-bodied, it is indulgent in its "smoky-bacon" flavors.

The Bettane and Desseauve Guide 2014: 2003 is evolving and the elements are beginning to blend harmoniously. The wine is great, subtle, and absolute. It is approaching its peak. Best from 2013 to 2018.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Jeb Dunnuck, April 2015): A big mouthful of a wine, the 2003 Languedoc Clos de Cistes shows the warmth of the vintage with its exuberant, fruit-loaded personality. Currants, roasted meats, plum, licorice, and underbrush all give way to a full-bodied, hedonistic, and sexy Languedoc that has a stacked mid-palate, no hard edges, and a clean finish. Drink it over the coming 4-5 years: 2015-2020.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (David Schildknecht, June 2009): Soria's 2003 Coteaux du Languedoc Clos des Cistes - incorporating, as always, around 15% Grenache - was not harvested nearly as early as you might suppose (or as Soria's 2007s, which came in the earliest of any, she reports, namely from September 1-14), and was bottled only last September. As has often been the case across Western Europe, given the break in 2003's unremittingly hot, dry weather that finally arrived at the end of August, there is more sheer sap and less sense of desiccation here than in most Languedoc reds of its vintage. Cassis, black raspberry, and cherry preserves and distillate are wreathed with smoke on the nose. Bitter-edged black fruits, toasted walnuts, mineral salts, and sheer crushed stone saturate the firmly tannic palate, while persistent high tones suggestive of fruit and herb distillates run right through to the finish. This is amazingly dense, and grips with a severity of tannins and adamant sense of minerality that leave me gasping. Like many of the other most impressive wines from this infamous European summer, this may well prove a very long keeper. But I would plan to check out its evolution periodically.

Technical sheet written by Marlène Soria:

SYRAH 85% + GRENACHE 15%

TERROIR COTEAUX CAILLOUTEUX ARGILO-CALCAIRE

PLANTED ON VIRGIN SOILS: GARRIGUE CLEARINGS

CERTIFIED ORGANIC CULTIVATION SINCE PLANTING

YIELD 14 TO 15 HL/HA

MANUAL HARVESTING AND SELECTION - TOTAL DE-STEMMING

AGING IN TANK + 1/4 IN Foudre

ADVICE:
OPEN AND DECANT AT LEAST 1 HOUR BEFORE
TEMPERATURE 16 - 17° C