•Name- Dom Belle Crozes-Hermitage Les Pierrelles
•Variety- Blend
•Region- Rhone
•Country- France
•Year- 2009
•Price- $22.95
•Shop/wine critic/winery review- Classic northern Rhone flavors of olives, herbs and smoked meats. Fruity and exuberant with flavors of savory herbs and some obvious oak. (Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, D.C.)
•Your review- Upon pouring of this wine, it was quite evident from looking at the color that this should be a very interesting wine to taste. Just from solely looking at the price I had reasonably high hopes for this wine, mainly because I knew it was out of my price range and wanted to see how good it was. Upon swirling and smelling, I was able to get a smokey flavor on the nose as well as some oakiness, but besides that, it seemed very much all over the place and I struggled to find many flavors besides that. On the tongue the wine was quite good and was a very savory wine, with many herb flavors going on as well as a pretty strong oak flavor. I enjoyed this wine but at that price I do not see how one could justify it versus some others that I'd rank as similar but at a much cheaper cost.
I did not have food with this wine
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