La Vieille Ferme Red 2006
La Vieille Ferme Red
Vintage: 2006
Region: Orange, France
Varietal:50% Grenache , 20% Syrah, 15% Carignan and 15% Cinsault
Alcohol: 13.5%
Price: $11.89
When I saw this inexpensive French red, I imagined myself drinking wine out of a tumbler at some rustic vineyard in the south of France. La Vieille Ferme produces 3 different wines (Red, White, Rose) consisting of regional varietal blends. The La Vieille Ferme Red is available almost everywhere and ranges in price quite a bit depending on where you find it.
Best served slightly chilled at about 17 degrees Celcius out of the bottle, it has reddish violet body. The nose shows hints of barnyard with floral notes and touches of fruit and spice. In the mouth, it is simple and uncomplicated with nice fruit over a medium body with decent tannin structure. If I had a beef with this wine is that for me, it has some artificial aspects as far as taste. I can’t put my finger what it is, but at this price point is a flaw that can easily be looked past.
The verdict: This wine is a great alternative to similarly priced examples like Little Penguin, Barefoot etc. It has good character along with great taste and would pair up easily with a good range of foods. An easy candidate for a house wine, although don’t pay to much for it.
84 Points
- La Vieille Ferme Red 2006
- by Adrian Bryksa
- Published on April 22nd, 2009
- Rating:
- 84 Points
More from Adrian Bryksa:
-
Calgary Folk Music Festival 2007
Artists typically perform more than once as they may have a main stage presentation followed up by one or more side stages. It is here that many festival goers think the best performances occur, as most artists group together to jam to create something more wonderful than the sum of its parts.
-
Conti Zecca Donna Marzia Primitivo IGT
Valentine’s Day might be a commercial holiday for some, but it seemed like a good enough day to hit up the cellar and try out some Italian red.
-
Le Volte
Le Volte holds distinction as it is aged in the same oak barriques that previously housed previous vintages of their flagship Ornellaia and Masseto blends.
-
Vinya l’Hereu Petit Grealo
Every time I think that I have seen all this wonderful city of Calgary has to offer in terms of wines and spirits, I encounter something more amazing and more jaw dropping than I could possibly imagine.
-
Book Review: Simple Truths
It’s not a new book or one that is burning down the best seller lists. Put simply, it is a guide to life written by an individual with a PHd in Theology and Art.
-
Heitz Cellars Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
I have heard people decanting Heitz Cellars wines for 6 hours, probably due to the fact that this wine spends 3 years aging between American and French oak.
Other recent features:
-
Sónar 2010 – Barcelona, Spain
The festival attracts a lot of outsiders, but the Mediterranean, Spanish and more specifically Catalan nature of the people makes the festival what it is. Catalan people are passionate and this passion is infectious. The atmosphere is electric in Barcelona as a city and heightened by music and intoxicants at Sónar.
-
Summer Party Naval Styles at Seven RestoLounge
Oysters, like wine are affected by terroir and these Miyagi’s flavor profiles ranged with one showing a cleaner, almost tropical profile and the other being more salty, marine driven. As I was devouring the seemingly endless plates put in front of us, I sipped on a glass of fine sauvignon blanc.
-
R4NT Radio March 2010
R4NT Radio March 2010 um wow it’s been far too long since the last edition edition, featuring: Hector Hernandez, The Infesticons, Blockhead, Gramatik, Emika, Thunderheist, Parov Stelar, Eddy Meets Yannah, Anti-Pop Consortium, The Slew, Lighterthief, Andreya Triana, Parasyte Woman, Mathon, Venetian Snares, and Funki Porcini.
-
O Restaurant & Lounge revisited
Calgary has a diverse set of urban communities, most of which have the ubiquitous strip mall watering hole. In the South West community of Marda Loop, a reinvention of this paradigm has been established.
-
Predictions 2010.. and beyond!
So 2010 eh? Almost but not quite (no year zero they say) another decade? It seems like just yesterday that the world was waiting for Y2K. R4NT started publishing in March 2001, so we’re not quite 10 years old yet, but in internet years we are already a senior citizen.
-
Invictus
No matter what, the reality of Nelson Mandela is something that deserves screen time. Should this film even remotely intrigue the masses to take interest in this figure, the world would likely benefit greatly from it.
