Domaine La Bouissiere Gigondas 1999

Deep red.

Salami and spicy red fruit nose. Actually quite attractive. Smoke and garrigue nuances too.

Quite concentrated in the mouth, with intense spicy garrigue and root vegetable flavors. Black cherry shows up late. Structured throughout with grainy tannin, but flavor concentration keeps it on the sidelines.

Funny - my first bottles several years ago were hard as nails, and critical reviews were lukewarm. Gave many bottles away.
I'm keeping the rest. This would be great with (again) lamb stew.

Day 3 - Gamey character now in the background, garrigue front and center. My 10 year old says Fuji apple. I'll be damned, but it does smell of cinnamon sprinkled apples (too). But flavors are distinctly beet root and resinous herbs, with slightly aggressive (stem?) tannins. Gigondas as the Cornas of the south?

Packed and totally killer wine. A large, extended middle-finger directed at those looking for seamless, confectionary wines.


$25