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Monday, January 02, 2012
Our first selection from the delicious 2010 vintage in the southern Rhone!
 One of our favorite Stephen Tanzer quotes sums up all too well our personal feelings about the newly released 2010 vintage in the southern Rhône: “If I were a lab rat in a cage, I would suck this stuff out of a water bottle until I drowned.”
While Steve was sucking down 2007 Burgundy, we have done all we can to not collectively drink every single bottle of our very limited allocation of this seductive 2010 Cotes du Rhône from Domaine la Milliere, one of the first red blends from this beautiful vintage to reach our shores. To say it is too good is too simple—this is one of the more balanced and complete Rhône vintages certainly in the past 10 years, and one that gives us goose bumps as it is just so pleasurable to drink.
Full-bodied and balanced, chock-full of spice and exhilaratingly fresh, perfectly summer-ripe fruit—and alcohol levels thankfully more northern than southern—this 2010 is downright delicious and a stunning effort from one of the top estates in the southern Rhône.
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