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Côte Roannaise
On my annual Lake Michigan Circle Tour today I decide to forego the last stretch of toll road and take the North Skokie Highway into Wisconsin from Illinois. Just as I am lamenting the French wine selection at the usual liquid provisions stop in Milwaukee and realizing the urge to pee, I look up from my reflections and see that I’m turning into the entrance of Sam’s Wine & Spirits. What luck.
As if there are brilliantly shiny things twisting in the dazzling light above it, I proceed directly to the rack wealthy with Loire wine. It is there I find a bottle of 2006 Domaine du Fontenay, Côte Roannaise. Made from Gamay grapes grown on the hill of St Sulpice, this wine apparently benefits from contact with granite as well as a lack of yeast or sugar manipulation. It’s purple. The nose is candied cherries on fern. A drink is light-bodied, intense with fruit and a focused acidity. It finishes with a healthy dose of tannin and weightier. A joyous match with medium-rare ribeye. Dressner might have imported it though he didn’t.
2008.03.17 Todd Abrams at 11:20 pm
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One Response to Côte Roannaise
Very good indeed! It is nice to see people are still looking for unique wines of character from unknown places. This is one of my favorite wines to sell (I work at Sam’s)and I am glad that someone else is enjoying it.
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