A controversial offering, the 2006 Vacqueyras Cuvee Prestige was aged in new oak, and at this stage, it reveals excessive amounts of toasty vanillin. The color is black/purple, and the wine is certainly concentrated and well-made, but it is somewhat atypical. The oak will integrate to a certain extent, but this is not your Grandmother’s Vacqueyras. This wine is loaded with potential, but at present, the oak is glaringly disjointed. Time will tell.Proprietor Bernard Burle has 45 acres in Vacqueyras which represents half of his entire domaine in the southern Rhone.A Jack Siler Selection, Springfield, VA; tel. (703) 644-5210; various American importers.
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