I’ve been meaning to try this wine for so long. I wish I had a dollar for everytime somebody had either asked me about it, tagged me in it, or shoved it in my DM. I didn’t even know what it was, I mean I assumed it was either a Beaujolais or a cab Franc but I found it on the shelf at @winehoundsb in Santa Barbara and it turns out I was close, it’s a Bourgueil and it’s quite good and I don’t remember what I paid for it but I think it’s like $23 so an absolute steal.
Beautiful brilliant color–rich purple tinged ruby with pink edges. Big smokey match box weedy nose a little bit of conifer and crayon brighten and fatten. Forward fruit explodes on the palate but not slutty: extremely elegant and subdued with more smokey richness that can only be fresh young cheap soft shouldered CF from the old world.
There’s a honey nectar to the entry which slowly turns pie cherry before rasping out in grand fashion with a bit of wet sandpaper and golden seal. I’m gonna guess 13-oh.
This is a ridiculously good wine. I totally expected to be disappointed but this little thing is just straight-up rock and roll. If I had a resty I would glass this thing all day long for 11 bucks and bottle it for 40. I could sell this shit to Mormons. You know how I’ve been wonking the Hauner Hiera for about 2 years now as quite possibly the world’s most perfect BTG, well this thing has fewer rough edges. And dead even on label art.
There’s so many depressing things about wine I see and read every single day and then I open a bottle like this and everything is happy and beautiful and the way it should be. Forever.
2015 GAUTHIER PIERRE et RODOLPHE “Soif de Jour” Cabernet Franc Bourgueil France 13.0
Stephen McConnell 