Les Racines Rouge 2016
COMMENTAIRES DE DÉGUSTATION PAR L’ÉQUIPE DU VIEUX TÉLÉGRAPHE – LE 8 FÉVRIER 2023
Belle couleur.
Le nez présente une légère évolution, chaud sans être lourd. Grand millésime de Racines, on est en présence de fruits bien mûrs, légèrement confiturés ; la fraîcheur et la gourmandise sont au rendez-vous.
La bouche se fait velours, les tanins sont onctueux, c’est dense, profond et ample. Belle finale.
Très belle bouteille que nous pouvons encore oublier quelques années.
JAMESSUCKLING.COM – AUG. 29, 2018 – JAMES SUCKLING
96. Very complete and complex wine that has intensity and elegance. Raspberry and rose-like perfume, this has a long, red-fruit core with dark spices wrapped deep into the heart of the palate. Detailed texture, the noble, long tannins cloaked in wild, red plums and berries. Terrific freshness here. Wow. Drink or hold.
WINE ADVOCATE – #238 – JOE CZERWINSKI
(94-96). The 2016 Gigondas Les Racines was in its foudres at the time of my visit, but I still think it is the equal of the Brunier family’s Châteauneufs. Full-bodied and rich but silky and almost lacy in texture, it marries raspberries and apricots with lovely herbal nuances and a lingering finish. It’s a tremendous Gigondas, made from 75-year-old vines (80% Grenache).
WINESPECTATOR.COM – JULY 19, 2018 – J.MOLESWORTH
It’s juicier in feel [than Terrasse du Diable], with more succulent cherry, plum and blackberry fruit that gets an energetic kick of anise at the end. Both are lovely wines
VINOUS.COM – AOUT 2, 2018 – JOSH RAYNOLDS
(92-94). Deep ruby. Highly fragrant, smoke-tinged aromas of fresh dark fruits, incense and potpourri are sharpened by a spicy pepper note. Fleshy and broad but energetic as well, offering bitter cherry, black raspberry and floral pastille flavors that turn sweeter on the back half. Finishes sweet, broad and very long, displaying firm, spicy puch and dusty tannins that come in late.
John Livingstone-Learmonth (drinkrhone.com)
DOMAINE LES PALLIERES LES RACINES 2016 ****(*)
(large barrel, bottling June 2018) full, dark red. The nose is striking – raspberry liqueur, vibrant fruit, geranium, spicing. There is a good garrigue presence on the palate, with a hum of intensity; it builds as it goes, straightens just before the close. There is a lot of wine here; it’s complex. The flavour centres on warm red berry fruits, thickly delivered but fluid. It shows especially well on the second half, and the close is nice and rocky.
From 2022. 2038-41 Oct 2017
JANCISROBINSON.COM – NOV. 23, 2017 – RICHARD HEMMING
17. Meaty nose with gorgeously succulent bramble fruits on the palate and an earthy undergrowth complexity that is really charming and open-knit. Precocious and delicious for drinking now, with all the heartiness and generosity of great Grenache.
WINE ADVOCATE – OCT. 31, 2017 – No 233 – JOE CZERWINSKI
(93 – 95). The Domaine Les Pallieres 2016 Gigondas Les Racines is full-bodied and lush, awash in cherry fruit, and seemingly even more supple, concentrated and long than the Terrasse de Diable. It has the stuffing to drink well for up to two decades
JEBDUNNUCK.COM – OCT. 19, 2017
93-95. The 2016 Gigondas Racines comes from older vines around the estate and is a bigger, richer, more mouth-filling beauty. Currants, roasted herbs, charcoal and garrigue aromas all emerge from this decadent, opulent beauty that has ripe tannin and a big finish. It too will benefit from short-term cellaring.
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