Perrin & Fils, Vinsobres Hauts Julien Brut Zero This isn’t quite as structured

This isn’t quite as structured as the Pucelles but it is still sufficiently prominent to make evident that here too patience will be rewarded

Here there is no reductive funk as the agreeably fresh nose offers up ripe notes of earthy and spicy purple fruit

and it will be best over the next 2-3 years while it still offers a core of fruit

In most vintages

intense and sneaky long finale

Perrin & Fils, Vinsobres Hauts Julien Brut Zero This isn’t quite as structuredAlready bottled, the super concentrated, superb 2010 Vinsobres Les Hauts Julien Vieilles Vignes has off the charts richness. Floral notes intermixed with blueberry, blackberry, boysenberry, licorice, truffle and camphor are all present in this superb wine, which is inky bluish purple to the rim, extremely full bodied, with great acid and sweet but abundant tannin. This is a wine for patient connoisseurs partisans of southern Rhone wines. Forget it for