Domaine des Grandes Bastides d’Alquier – 2012
AOC Faugères (rouge)

Grapes: syrah, grenache, mourvèdre
Terroir: old vines on hard shale

The sommelier:
This wine, which is vinified 24 months in 60% new barrels, reveals a deep and dense almost black garnet.
After a carafe aeration for 2 good hours, the scents reveal a complex equation around the fruit macerated with raspberry, blackberry and blackcant, then come violet, liquorice stick, black pepper, nutmeg, sandalwood, bay leaf and notes of bitter chocolate.
This gourmet beverage, powerful and sensual, glides on the taste buds with a delicious freshness whose finish on the nut and crushed almond, stokes the appetite.

DJ sommelier Wine4Melomanes mixed:

The Greg Foat Group « Girl And Robot With Flowers (part 3) » 2012

The « haute-couture » wine dress marries the sensual melodious line of folk jazz composition.
The orchestrated ensemble of a tense bass, an overflowing Hammond B3 organ, well-melted brass, sustained pop rhythm and impeccable folk guitar, is layered with the swirling aromatic complexity of nectar.
The enveloping and vigorous tasting of this mature bachic high size echoes the musical arrangements of a cinematic stamp coated in the « seventies » style freed of top quality.

Domaine Bardi d’Alquier
Les Bastides d’Alquier – 2017
AOC Faugères (rouge)

Grapes: syrah, grenache, mourvèdre
Terroir: old vines on hard shale

The sommelier:
This wine, which is vinified 24 months in 60% new barrels, radiates a bright garnet color expressing a great youth.
After a carafe aeration of several hours, the powerful scents of black olive, smoked blackcover, leather, meat juice, hot dark chocolate, mocha, fine graphed notes and black pepper envelop the chalice.
This vintage from the same plot as the one in 2012 illustrates the progression of the potential to keep this modern wine.
The tasting is fluid and fusing, the tannins are melted, the flavors are perennial and fresh, this wine confers a great clarity in its design.

DJ sommelier Wine4Melomanes mixed:

Témé Tan « Coups de griffe » 2017

Like a claw, this contemporary wine energizes the palate during its tasting, like the composition with electro chiseled musical arrangements, crowned by the voice of a poet humming a well-crafted vintage candid prose.
The illuminating originality of the melody merges with the nitescence sincerity expressed by the wine.

Tasted in April 2020