Delas Red Wine

France - Rhone - Cotes du Rhone - A very typical Côtes du Rhône red with full red fruit and plenty of baking spice. Full body and a warm, yet gently dry mouthfeel, in spite of the challenging vintage. Good length and excellent harmony at the finish.

Hermitage, Rhone, France - "The nose is powerful and complex, expressing blackberries, smoke, spices, leather and black olives. On the palate, the wine is firm but silky, with full body and a long, elegant finish."

Rhone, France - "The granitic Bessards character is strong here with dark slate and dark, lustrous blackberry and plum fruits on the nose. The palate has a swathe of fine, long and powerful, yet velvety, tannins. Oak is nicely integrated. Very fresh. A great wine."

France - Rhone - Hermitage - This offers up a monster of a bouquet of primordial blue fruits, camphor, burning embers, and scorched earth. Powerful yet incredibly pure with building tannins, bright acidity, stunning mid-palate depth, and a great finish.

Crozes-Hermitage, Rhone, France - The nose shows seductive whiffs of crushed black fruit-dark cherries, blackberries and blackcurrants-that evolve in the glass to reveal slightly woody and smoky notes. The wine is fresh and lively in the mouth with persistent flavor and good length.

France - Rhone - Hermitage - Inky hued, with a great nose of pure cassis, crushed rocks, camphor, new leather, and hints of bacon fat, this wine hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a round, layered texture, beautiful depth on the mid-palate, and velvety tannins.

France- This wine is a charming, silky style, with pretty cassis and plum fruit flavors sweeping through, followed by light herb, tobacco and chalk accents on the fresh finish. It's super plush and richly ripe with fleshy red plums and blackberries.

France - Rhone - Crozes-Hermitage - "Aromatic and high-toned, with a pretty nose of smoked incense, violet and red currant, plus a backdrop of underbrush, fresh menthol and white pepper. Offers generous iron, while tobacco leaf brings earthy dimension through the..."

France - Rhone - Cote Rotie - "This has a warm feel, featuring plum and blackberry compote flavors infused with anise, fruitcake and violet notes. A light ganache hint throughout shows flickers of cast iron and olive. Displays lovely range, with the iron minerality really..."

France - Rhone - Cornas - "A core of juicy red currant and bitter plum pate de fruit flavors is brought into nice focus by a racy, chalk-edged structure and an iron spine, while subtle savory and dark olive accents dart in the background..."

St Joseph, Rhone, France - "Dark, fresh plum fruits and cocoa powdery complexity. A plush, concentrated palate with plenty of dark plum and plum stone flavor. Drink now." Try pairing this wine with lamb and beef.

France - Rhone - Saint-Joseph - "This flows beautifully, with a ripe, pure and steady beam of cassis and dark cherry preserves that shows good brightness and delineation through the finish, picking up light floral and mineral accents along the way. Seductive in style, with..."

France - Rhone - Saint-Joseph - "On the palate it is dry and linear, to the point of being slightly austere, but there’s so much minerality and a smoked-bacon note is neatly woven into this complex picture."

France - Rhone - Cote Rotie - "Shows excellent ripeness for the vintage, with a juicy core of red currant and plum fruit, backed by light anise, apple wood and black tea notes. Fresh acidity drives the iron-laden finish, adding cut and detail..."

France - Rhone - Cote Rotie - "Shows excellent ripeness for the vintage, with a juicy core of red currant and plum fruit, backed by light anise, apple wood and black tea notes. Fresh acidity drives the iron-laden finish, adding cut and detail..."

Hermitage, Rhone, France - "This is very refined, with a long beam of cassis, dark cherry and boysenberry fruit flavors that cut a pure path as sleek iron, violet and red tea nuances fill in around. A subtle mineral edge and a singed alder note peek through at the very end..."

France - Rhone - Crozes-Hermitage - "Solidly built, with juicy and engaging raspberry, red currant and blackberry fruit flavors spreading out from the core, picking up anise, incense, mineral and floral accents along the way. The structure is fine-grained, with fresh..."

Rhone, France - "The aromatic 2016 Cote Rotie Seigneur de Maugiron has a Violet ,herb, black olive and tar notes add complexity to the ripe raspberry fruit in this medium to full-bodied wine that's already supple and seductive. " [Barrel Score: 90-93]

France - Rhone - Cote Rotie - This has an earthy, old-school feel, with licorice root, blackberry and cassis coursing alongside warm graphite, leather and cumin. Gains a jolt of freshness from anise and menthol accents, and there is impressive depth toward the lengthy finish.

Rhone, France - "The aromatic 2016 Cote Rotie Seigneur de Maugiron has a Violet ,herb, black olive and tar notes add complexity to the ripe raspberry fruit in this medium to full-bodied wine that's already supple and seductive. " [Barrel Score: 90-93]

France - Rhone - Crozes-Hermitage - "This is loaded with well-defined loganberry, blackberry and boysenberry pate de fruit flavors, flecked with anise and black tea notes and carried by a fine iron streak that lingers wonderfully. A wine of cut, purity and precision..."

Hermitage, Rhone, France - "Its an incredible wine that offers classic powdered rock-like minerality, loads of creme de cassis and black raspberry fruit, smoked meats, spice and dried-flower nuances. Complex, pure and perfumed, its full-bodied and seamless on the palate."

France - Rhone - Hermitage - Inky hued, with a great nose of pure cassis, crushed rocks, camphor, new leather, and hints of bacon fat, this wine hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a round, layered texture, beautiful depth on the mid-palate, and velvety tannins.

France - Rhone - Cote Rotie - Blackberries, raspberries, smoked meats, violets, and floral notes all emerge from this full-bodied, rich, incredibly impressive wine. It shows the pure, classic style of the vintage yet brings beautiful richness as well as seamless tannins.