Jaboulet Parallele 45 Rouge 2003
Rhone Red Blends
from Cotes du Rhone, Rhone, France
winemaker's notes:
It is a generous wine, full of character and well constructed. Parallele 45, with its cardinal red color, is selected from noble grape varieties with as much Syrah as possible. It is a generous wine, full of character and well constructed. It has aromas of Grenache, coffee, and hawthorn. It is a wine for everyday, for happy times with the family. It is a wine for keeping as long as 7 to 8 years in a good cellar.
"...A lot of heft for the price..."
-Wine News
user reviews:
The top 3 most liked reviews for this wine.
A Customer - Bellevue, WA
Finding an affordable wine this good - that's not a fruit bomb, or an over-oaked caricature of a good wine is rare. Finding a French wine this good at this price is equally so. But finding one that is this consistent, and that you can drink young or age is truly remarkable. Treat yourself to a case a year, but put half of it aside and open a bottle a year for six years. That is an education in how wine ages you likely won't get anywhere else for several times the price. If you started four years ago, you could maybe grill some lamb marinated in olive oil, garlic, lemon juice or make ratatouille and compare, say, the 1999 with the 2003 Paralelle 45s this weekend. Now that's fun in a bottle.
A Customer - Houston, TX
Great dinner wine. Went well with great steaks and roasted vegetables. I'm so glad we tried it and wish we had bought more!
A Customer - Illinois
This wine was first recommended to me as a solid, but affordable wine to bring on a date. I was very pleased. It was a wonderful full flavor, but is not so heavy that it does not meld well with a variety of food types. THis is my favorite bottle of wine for dinner and I always keep a bottle in the pantry.
