2017 L'Aventure Cuvée Les Demoiselles
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Youthful purple. Vibrant cherry and black currant aromas show excellent clarity and pick up a bright mineral nuance and a hint of pungent flowers with air. Juicy and tightly focused on the palate, delivering impressive depth and intense black and blue fruit and violet pastille flavors that become livelier on the back half. Concludes with bright finishing cut, an echo of sweet dark berries and candied flowers and fine-grained tannins that add subtle grip.
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Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2017 Cuvée Les Demoiselles is a blend of 70% Mourvèdre, 20% Syrah and 10% Grenache. Medium to deep ruby in the glass, the nose is super inviting, offering gregarious cranberry jelly, raspberry and strawberry jam, boysenberry, pomegranate and tangerine peel aromas with earthy notions of dried leaves, tree bark, grapefruit rind, dusty earth and rose petals. Medium to full-bodied, it’s silky and unfurls slowly to lifted floral and amaro-tinged red and blue fruits, with an incredibly melting, pixelated frame and juicy acidity to carry the long, layered finish. This is fantastic!
A blend of 70% Mourvèdre, 20% Syrah, and 10% Grenache, the 2017 Les Demoiselles offers a dark, classic Mourvèdre bouquet of savory black fruits, ground herbs, chocolate, cured meats, and graphite. Full-bodied, pure, and elegant with ultra-fine tannins, it's a beautiful, layered, seamless wine that's going to continue drinking brilliantly for over a decade. I certainly blew the call on some of the Bordeaux blends from l’Aventure last year, and their Estate Cuvée and Côte a Côte are much better wines than my barrel reviews suggested.
About the producer
L’Aventure is one of the leading wine estates in Paso Robles, California. It was founded by Stephan Asseo and his wife Beatrice who left their native France in 1997 in search of a place to make wine without the restrictions of France’s appellation system.