Domaine Brusset Cotes du Rhone Carianne Coteaux Travers 1998
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Aroma: Elegant smell of blackcurrant and elderberry.
Taste: Starting with full and concentrated flavors, silky tannins, blackcurrant and cherry, with a final touch of pepper and spice.
Serve with: All type of meat (when young), game animals and cheese (when at the best of its age).
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.