NV Saint Cosme Little James' Basket Press
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Moving to the reds, the NV Vin De France Little James Basket Press is mostly Grenache and is a juicy, strawberry-filled, peppery wine with medium-bodied richness. It’s a great bistro wine to drink over the coming couple of years.
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Louis Barruol has solved the problem of tracking which bottling a non-vintage wine comes from by adding a bottling date to the front label of his NV Vin de France Little James Basket Press. This particular sample was bottled in 2019. Grenache-based and aged in tank, it offers up scents of maraschino cherries, almond skin and dried herbs. Medium-bodied, succulent and juicy, it finishes well, with just enough silky tannin to give it substance. Drink it over the next couple of years.
Pure grenache and made as a solera that has been alive for twenty years with half of the new harvest being exchanged into the solera each year. The final blend is 50% solera wine and 50% wine of the new vintage. The richness is really something. Such deep-set grenache red and dark berries, as well as riper, raisiny notes. Long, smooth and deep. Drink now.
This has a wild garrigue, cherry and cassis edge with some glossy candied fruit on the palate. Plum and salted licorice to close. Based on Solera. Drink now. Screw cap.