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2001 Rasteau Vieilles Vignes

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Rasteau

Southern Rhône

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Rhone Blend

Vintages
201420132012201120102009200620052004200120001999
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To maintain his high quality standards, Michel Tardieux000D will introduce a second label, Les Grandes Bastides, beginning with the 2002x000D vintage. Wines destined to be bottledx000D under the Tardieu-Laurent label will be aged entirely in his partner Dominiquex000D Laurent's "magic casks," which Laurent fashions from extra-thickx000D Troncais oak staves. But in thex000D difficult 2002 vintage, Tardieu told me, all the wines from the Southern Rhonex000D will be declassified into the second label. I was shocked by how well the 2001s showed just a few weeks after the mise;x000D in addition to making minimal use of SO2 and maximum use of hisx000D wines' lees, Tardieu obviously does a very gentle bottling. Tardieu told me the concentration of thex000D 2001 fruit in the South came via heat and wind, as the mistral blew during muchx000D of the first three weeks of September; in the cooler North, phenolic maturityx000D was slower to come. These are wines tox000D seek out.