Feb 14 2010
Quality wine – French Connection
Wine- Wine: Quality wine – French Connection
From very humble beginnings in the 1960s Antoine Olivier’s estate has grown into quite a serious venture with vineyard holdings in Savigny-les-Beaune Pommard and Nuits St Georges. These are classic burgundies that really display their origins beautifully – elegant fragrant Pinot Noirs and wonderfully stylish Chardonnays.2007 Bourgogne Chardonnay Clean ripe and elegant – very stylish indeed and a beautiful vintage for white burgundy.2007 Bourgogne Pinot Noir There’s a lovely savoury earthy feel to this wonderful Pinot Classic berry fruit gentle spice; irresistible.David and Hélène Barrault took over this vineyard perched on slopes overlooking the River Gironde two weeks before the ‘challenging’ 1997 vintage not too far from Sainte-Croix–du-Mont. Since the 2003 vintage in particular they have been making terrific wines. As the Gault Millau guide says of Ch. Tire Pé; ‘these are very very good ‘simple’ bordeaux wines’; something most of us spend our lives searching for without much success!2005 Chateau Tire Pe90% Merlot plus Cabernet Sauvignon. Luscious plummy fruit on the nose with minty notes. Lovely richness on the palate; ripe blackberry and cherry fruit silky tannins quite full with medium long balanced minerally finish.
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