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Verget du Sud Vin de Pays du Vaucluse Roussanne 2006<\/strong> Jean-Marie Guffens’ impressive work with the grapes of Burgundy continues with grapes sourced further south, in this case from the Vaucluse, a department on the east side of the river Rhone which encompasses the great town of Avignon. In April ’08 a bottle was off but in October ’08 the wine is just right. While it is a little reductive when first opened, this blows off with a little air. Then the stone fruit and mineral notes emerge after a few minutes. In the mouth the wine is light-bodied with a little bit of viscosity and enough acidity to keep it lively. The fruit is not ebullient as in a Roussanne from the New World but nonetheless it does show through. <\/strong><\/span>Vinifie et mis en bouteilles by Verget in Sologny 13% $13.69 at Bottle Barn Verget <\/a><\/p>\n Zaca Mesa Santa Ynez Valley Estate Grown and Bottled Viognier 2006<\/strong> Verget du Sud Vin de Pays du Vaucluse Roussanne 2006 Jean-Marie Guffens’ impressive work with the grapes of Burgundy continues with grapes sourced further south, in this case from the Vaucluse, a department on the east side of the river Rhone which encompasses the great town of Avignon. In April ’08 a bottle was off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35,11,69,71,72,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-france","category-rhone","category-roussanne","category-santa-barbara-county","category-santa-ynez-valley","category-viognier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe previous vintage of this wine was spot on with Viognier aromas and a soft low acid feel. Ferm began in stainless then spent 3 mos in neutral fr oak. Clay Brock Winemaker, GP&B in Los Olivos 14.5% $16.50 at Traverso’s Zaca Mesa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"