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Date Printed: 5/23/2013
Saint Cosme Gigondas le Poste 2009
Saint Cosme Gigondas le Poste 2009
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Wine Spectator rating: 96 points
International Wine Cellar rating: 93 points
PRICE ON 5/23/2013: $47.99

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
2010 Wine Spectator rating: 99 points
2010 The Wine Advocate rating: 98 points
2010 International Wine Cellar rating: 95 points

Winemaker's Notes:

 Le Poste in 2009 is elegant like a black truffle aroma. A fruit made out of earth and stones. The wine is beautiful, a little different, with a very clear "Poste" expression. Find notes of violet, raspberry, blackberry, lode and limestone.
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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.