Domaine Peyre Rose Coteaux du Languedoc "Clos des Cistes" red 2002

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Jeb Dunnuck, avril 2015): A big, ripe and voluptuous Syrah, with some maturity, the 2002 Languedoc Clos de Cistes has lots of currants, black raspberry, iodine and roasted meat-like aromas and flavors. Sweetly fruit, with full-bodied richness and a decadent, yet concentrated and balanced profile, it's hard to resist now, but should also hold through 2020.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (David Schildknecht, juin 2009): The Peyre Rose 2002 Coteaux du Languedoc Clos des Cistes smells of cherry, plum, roasted meat, and pungent herbs. With strikingly pronounced iodine, brine, and wet stone emerging along with distilled pit fruits and deep meatiness on the palate, this presents a firm impression of underlying extract and remarkably fresh fruit for a late-bottled wine of its age. At the same time, there is glycerin to lend a soothing texture and toasted pecan and brown spices introduce a suggestion of sweetness even as the wine finishes blazingly bright. This is a wine that one imagines will remain dynamic, although more harmony may emerge in the course of 3-5 years. A bottle that had been opened for a day was more pronouncedly mineral and slightly sparer, but otherwise surprisingly little-evolved.