Chateau de la Roque, Pic-Saint-Loup, Cupa Numismae 1999 Rhone Rouge with impressive intensity and concentration

with impressive intensity and concentration but no sense of heaviness

ripe Merlot sings in this black-fruited wine

stony soil tones and vanillin oak

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Chateau de la Roque, Pic-Saint-Loup, Cupa Numismae 1999 Rhone Rouge with impressive intensity and concentrationBase of Neck or better; Kermit Lynch Import slips 65% Syrah, 35% Mourvdre Thirty two of the Chteaus eighty hectares are consecrated to terraced vineyard land with south southeast sun exposure, on clay and limestone soils. This is unique terroir. Garrigue, the aromatic scrub brush that dominates the landscapes of the South, asserts its presence among these vines. Syrah, Grenache, and Mourvdre, the noble varietals that Jack Boutin planted here years