Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Smack next to our hotel in Avignon, below the Palais du Papes is Les Domaines, a small 40 seat wine bar. The wine list of some 26 bottles offers 14 by the glass ranging from 3.50 to 6 euros a glass. All are from neighboring AOCs and are very well chosen.
2003 Chateau La Canourge Cotes du Luberon Rose
Not a bone dry rose as one usually expects, even with the salmon color it is the Pink version of the red wine. Candidly this could give Loire reds and some Pinot Noirs or Beaujolais a run as the fruit and flavors yell for smoked meats, pork dishes or even a Provencal chicken dish.
2002 Les Terres Blanches Blanc Coteaux du Aix en Provence
A very nice, with a crème de cocoa, honeydew. Cantaloupe and apricot flavor.
2003 Les Terres Blanches Rose Coteaux du Aix en Provence
A pale salmon pink color. It is bone dry, light, with a flavor profile of pure raspberry fruit at first blush. It is refreshing with being heady, and ends very nicely with a blueberry finish.
2003 Chateau La Canourge Cotes du Luberon Rouge
A deep inky black purple colored wine. An aroma of herbs de Provence is the first thing you encounter, then its followed by a nose of red and black plums, warm blueberry pie filling flavor and cocoa bean. The wine finishes up with tart plums and a hint of anise.
2001 Chateau du Trignon Gigondas
This is a serious wine and while not as forward as the Canourge, it is more tightly structured, offering black plums, black cherry wishniak, blueberry and blackberry fruit flavors.
2003 Chateau La Canourge Cotes du Luberon Rose
Not a bone dry rose as one usually expects, even with the salmon color it is the Pink version of the red wine. Candidly this could give Loire reds and some Pinot Noirs or Beaujolais a run as the fruit and flavors yell for smoked meats, pork dishes or even a Provencal chicken dish.
2002 Les Terres Blanches Blanc Coteaux du Aix en Provence
A very nice, with a crème de cocoa, honeydew. Cantaloupe and apricot flavor.
2003 Les Terres Blanches Rose Coteaux du Aix en Provence
A pale salmon pink color. It is bone dry, light, with a flavor profile of pure raspberry fruit at first blush. It is refreshing with being heady, and ends very nicely with a blueberry finish.
2003 Chateau La Canourge Cotes du Luberon Rouge
A deep inky black purple colored wine. An aroma of herbs de Provence is the first thing you encounter, then its followed by a nose of red and black plums, warm blueberry pie filling flavor and cocoa bean. The wine finishes up with tart plums and a hint of anise.
2001 Chateau du Trignon Gigondas
This is a serious wine and while not as forward as the Canourge, it is more tightly structured, offering black plums, black cherry wishniak, blueberry and blackberry fruit flavors.
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