2016 Le Soula Cotes Catalanes Blanc

Vin du Fenouilledes IGP, vegan
49% Sauvignon Blanc, 23% Vermentino, 14% Grenache Blanc, 12% Macabeu, 2% Grenache Gris, Malvoisie du Roussillon, Marsanne and Roussanne
Producer
Le Soula
Origin
Fenouilledes, Roussillon, Rhone/southern France FRANCE
Colour
white
Wine Style
dry
Dominant Grape
Sauvignon Blanc
Farming Style
biodynamic
Closure Style
cork
Maturity
drink or keep
Bottle Size
75cl
Case Quantity
6
Alcohol
12.5%
Wine Score
17.5++ points, Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com, Oct 2020
18 points, Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com, Sep 2021

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2016 Le Soula Cotes Catalanes Blanc

Media Reviews

Tamlyn Currin

Smoky, tense, almost juddering with resistance. This is a wine not even nearly ready to be opened. There is an allusion to honey and hawthorn; there is a slam of black metal and black rock. Rigid and toweringly intellectual. On day five after first being opened, the wine had turned silky, graceful (if shy) white peach and jasmine appearing on the cusp of the palate, the black rockiness turning to smooth dove-grey stream pebbles. This is a shape shifter. A quiet wine with a steely demand for patience and attention from the drinker. Buy to lay down. If you must drink it now, decant for more than a day, open a few days before if possible, serve at cellar temperature. Totally unapproachable just opened, but the future beauty of this wine lifts the hair on the back of your neck. 17.5++ points

Tamlyn Currin

I tasted this six months ago, and it`s a wine that defines Roussillon. Its wildness; its utter defiance; its dance of honey and herbs, bronze and petrichor, metal and rocks; its head-tossing beauty. This is a wine that tastes of dawn spilling silent light over mountains. It`s a wine that tastes of cold wind blowing through wild fennel and over scree in those dark-blue moments just after the sun has set. It`s a wine that tastes of time lost. You cannot taste this wine unless you approach it with your whole, open heart. 18 points

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