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TN: Bastille Day wines

With tonight's dinner of smoked duck, potatoes and cucumber-tomato salad, I opened two J et R wines:

1999 Domaine de la Tourade Gigondas color: garnet with a hint of bricking nose: quite gamey, with a good underpinning of cherryish fruit palate: meaty, gamey, background cherry, minerals, decent structure

1999 Domaine Grand Tinel Chateauneuf-du-Pape c: more vivid garnet with no signs of bricking n: kirsch, a hint of gaminess and herbs p: much fruitier than the Gigondas, medium-bodied, kirsch, decent acidity and a touch of meaty-gamey flavor

Both of these wines are imported by J et R Selections, based in Ann Arbor, MI and serving those of us in neighboring states. The Grand Tinel struck me as a fine, honest CdP that didn't have too many ambitions. Likewise, the Gigondas was the non-oaky version from Tourade and quite rustic. Both were good reflections of the vintage, and it could be argued that '99 favored Gigondas slightly more than CdP. Both wines were quite enjoyable with the food, though Jean and our guest both preferred the CdP for its more evident fruit.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton
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Always found Grand Tinel an excellent value. The Domaine's other wines, too: they used to sell a declassified CdP as table wine that vied with most of the AOC production of the day. It was a terrific deal at the equivalent of under $2 US! We used to order scads of cases, anyone who tasted was immediately down for a case or 3.

Further the family has always been very charming and welcoming.

I understand young Jeune has started commercializing another domaine, Domaine de Saint Paul. Appears to be a couple of kopecks more expensive than Grand Tinel. Has anyone tasted?

-E

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Emery Davis

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