Tasted 11 April 2011
I’ve been tasting this wine for more than five years now and this is one of the best bottles that I’ve had. A velvety deep red in the glass – it was so inviting, I just wanted to dive right in! Once it opened up and it took some time, there were layers of aniseed, red fruits, spice, aromatics, lifted florals and sarsaparilla.The structure is just seamless. The fruit integration was very fine the wine has a really supple juicy palate. Tannins were certainly alive and kicking as you would expect in a good Southern Rhône wine, but they were well and truly balanced and added to the length.
Slow cooked beef in red wine is perfect with a wine of this caliber. Include plenty of bacon, mushrooms and thyme to add texture and complement the aromatics of the Domaine de Mourchon.
The 2007 Rhône vintage has been widely acclaimed, with excellent wines produced both in the Northern Rhône and Southern Rhône sub regions. Robert Parker called it, “a truly historic and profoundly good vintage” adding that it “may be the most compelling vintage of any viticultural region I have ever tasted.”
