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The February 2017 Distinguished Cellar Auction
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"A smoking Cairanne from one of my favorite producers, the 2012 Cairanne Maximilien (50% Grenache, 35% Mourvedre and the balance Syrah) offers terrific notes of blueberry, violets, licorice and charred earth. Voluptuous, medium to full-bodied, decadent and downright sexy, with a great mid-palate, it shows the vintage's purity and texture . . ."
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"A smoking Cairanne from one of my favorite producers, the 2012 Cairanne Maximilien (50% Grenache, 35% Mourvedre and the balance Syrah) offers terrific notes of blueberry, violets, licorice and charred earth. Voluptuous, medium to full-bodied, decadent and downright sexy, with a great mid-palate, it shows the vintage's purity and texture . . ."
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
Spans the Syrah-driven northern crus of Cote-Rotie and Hermitage and the Grenache-based blends of the warmer south, led by Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Its wines are known for power, spice and warmth.
A warm-climate red giving generous, high-alcohol wines of red fruit and spice. It anchors southern Rhone blends and old-vine wines in Spain and Australia.
A late-ripening red lending structure, dark fruit and gamey, meaty complexity to southern Rhone and Mediterranean blends.
Syrah (Shiraz) produces dark, powerful reds with black fruit, pepper and smoked-meat notes. It yields elegant, perfumed wines in the northern Rhone and bold, rich styles in Australia.