Domaine Brusset Cotes du Rhone Villages Cairanne Chabrille 1998
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Aroma: Small red berries, vanilla, pepper.
Taste: A very robust wine, lingering in the mouth, very supple tannins, excellent long tasting flavors.
Serve with: Game and grilled meats.
Vinification is utterly modern. Yields are kept very low (between 25 and 30 hectoliters per hectare for Cairanne and Gigondas) by close pruning and a vendange verte in abundant vintages. The grapes are all hand-picked, completely destemmed, and vinified parcel by parcel, varietals separated. During harvest Laurent may have almost 100 different microvinifications in the cellar, representing different grape varietals of some 60 distinct parcels. All are fermented in enameled steel vats with temperatures controlled at 28C with a day or two at 34C for maximum extraction. Following the initial fermentation and malolactic in tank, the separate varietals and parcels are blended for each wine, with inferior tanks being sold off to negociants.