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2018 Côtes du Rhône

Selected by Kermit Lynch
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A Proustian cookie, a bowl of hot soup, the sound of a familiar voice: life’s simple pleasures. This is another one of them. Spicy, fruity, easygoing. It makes me think of Greg Brown purring his guileless “hey baby hey baby hey baby hey.” Simple, but there’s something profound beneath all that, you know?

Emily Spillmann


Technical Information
Wine Type: red
Vintage: 2018
Bottle Size: 750mL
Blend: 56% Grenache, 21% Syrah, 8% Mourvèdre, 7% Carignan, 7% Cinsault, 1% Marselan
Appellation: Côtes du Rhône
Country: France
Region: Southern Rhône
Producer: Selected by Kermit Lynch
Vineyard: 40 years average, 36 ha
Soil: Marl, Limestone
Aging: Wine is aged in cement tank before bottling
Farming: Lutte Raisonnée
Alcohol: 13.5%

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Inspiring Thirst

I want you to realize once and for all: Even the winemaker does not know what aging is going to do to a new vintage; Robert Parker does not know; I do not know. We all make educated (hopefully) guesses about what the future will bring, but guesses they are. And one of the pleasures of a wine cellar is the opportunity it provides for you to witness the evolution of your various selections. Living wines have ups and downs just as people do, periods of glory and dog days, too. If wine did not remind me of real life, I would not care about it so much.

Inspiring Thirst, page 171