Appellation - Côtes du Rhône
Composition - 60% Grenache, 30% Syrah, and 10% Mourvedre
Smell - Smells oddly of plums and blackberry or cassis or something. Slightly astringent, but not much. Mild smelling.
Taste - peppery, tannic, sweet. Odd that I taste peppery, but it's definitely there. Simple wine, but also a nice one. This is just a drinking wine. Every sip is pleasant, none are shocking.
Finish - not much. Bit of tannin and acid stay at the end, but the flavor is fleeting.
Thoughts - I want to keep drinking this, it certainly passes the "quickly emptied" test with flying colors. It is rather simple though. This is a hard wine to write about, I don't know what to say.
Balance - Mild, reminds me of a slightly more tannic Moulin-a-Vent from Maison Louis Tete (2007 specifically).
Recommendation - if you can find this for the $11 I paid, it is certainly worth picking up a few bottles. Far better than most roughly $10 wines. That being said, it's for drinking, not tasting.
Update: This wine didn't taste as good the second glass, and another bottle was also uninspiring. It started out promising, but on reflection, I would pass it up. I won't pick up any more, even though they are available and cheap.
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