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Date Printed: 5/20/2013
Saint Cosme Cotes du Rhone Les Deux Albions 2005
Saint Cosme Cotes du Rhone Les Deux Albions 2005
 (search item no. 90935)
The Wine Advocate rating: 90 points
PRICE ON 5/20/2013: $19.79

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
2011 The Wine Advocate rating: 92 points
2010 Wine Spectator rating: 91 points
2010 International Wine Cellar rating: 91 points
2010 The Wine Advocate rating: 90 points
2009 The Wine Advocate rating: 91 points
2009 International Wine Cellar rating: 91 points
2008 The Wine Advocate rating: 90 points
2007 The Wine Advocate rating: 90 points
2006 The Wine Advocate rating: 90 points
2004 The Wine Advocate rating: 89 points
2003 The Wine Advocate rating: 90 points
2001 The Wine Advocate rating: 90 points

Winemaker's Notes:

 "The outstanding 2005 Cotes du Rhone Les Deux Albions (40% Syrah, 30% Grenache and the rest Carignan with 10% of the white grape Clairette) is beautifully made wine with lovely fruit and a big, floral nose with hints of white peaches intermixed with black and red fruits and earth. The wine has silky texture, and is totally seductive and impressively endowed."
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
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About Domaine de Saint Cosme:

 Louis Barruol is the 14th generation Barruol to make wine at Saint Cosme. The Chateau was built in the late 16th Century on the site of a former Roman villa, and the remains of a Roman wine cellar, carved into the stone of the hillside, still exist in the chateau's caves. There are 37 acres of vineyards and the vines average 60 years of age. The old plots (pictured on the Gigondas label) and stitch across the escarpment of the ragged Dentelles de Montmirail, an oft-painted mountain range.