Domaine Brunely Vacqueyras La Tour Aux Cailles Rouge, Rhone Valley, France

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The opaque purple-colored 2010 Vacqueyras La Tour aux Cailles possesses the vintage’s gorgeous purity, enticing, full-bodied texture, fresh acids and sweet but noticeable tannins. Made from the same blend as the 2009, it is an intense, full-bodied, classic Vacqueyras to enjoy over the next decade. (Not yet released)These two modern-styled Chateauneuf du Papes demonstrate the influence of small barrels and toasty oak.No known American importer.

The impressive 2009 Vacqueyras La Tour aux Cailles (60% Grenache and 40% Syrah aged in cement tanks for nearly 18 months) performed extremely well in my Vacqueyras tastings. Give it 2-3 years of cellaring and drink it over the following 12-15 years as I suspect it will be one of the longer lived wines of the vintage. Atypically backward for a 2009, with an opaque purple color, massive flavor concentration and extract, full body, and lots of black fruit, forest floor and pen ink-like characteristics, this blockbuster Vacqueyras is almost bigger than life. These two modern-styled Chateauneuf du Papes demonstrate the influence of small barrels and toasty oak.No known American importer.

Brunely's top cuvee, the 2007 Vacqueyras Cuvee La Tour aux Cailles, is a combination of Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvedre. While slightly more expensive than its siblings, all three of these wines sell for a song at the domaine (around 8-10 euros per bottle). Sweet blueberry and blackberry fruit characteristics are accompanied by hints of licorice, lavender, and earth. Dense, full-bodied, and juicy, with more structure and tannin than its more fruit-driven siblings, it should last for a decade. All three of these offerings are sensational bargains.There are three superb 2007s from Domaine de la Brunely (a large estate of 124 acres with 53 in the heart of Vacqueyras). The Cuvee Tradition and Cuvee Carte d-Or are aged 12 months in cement tanks, and the Cuvee La Tour aux Cailles spends 18 months in concrete.No known American importer.