Wine Review - 2009 Lavau Cotes Du Rhone Villages: Eating Pork For Dinner? Have This Wine...

We were having a Porchette Pork Roast for Supper and decided to have this wine with it.  At $16 locally from Bishop's Cellar, we thought this Grenache and Syrah blend would go well with it.  How right we were...

The tannic acidity in the wine cut through the fattiness of the pork perfectly.  The dryness of the wine also lent itself to the dishes we were having simply due to the fact it was rich (i.e. Polenta).  We thought the wine could stand up on its own, but with a nice dinner it never got the chance.

Typical of Rhone wines, there are fresh blackberries on the nose with a cherry sensation once you get your nose right in there.  Really nice.

Can't stress enough how good this wine is with food.

If we had to put an analogy to this, it would be like having a campfire and not having hot dogs and marshmallows to go with it.  Just a shame to not have food with this wine.

	Tasting Notes:	Score:
Sight (0-5)	Deep ruby colour that walks close to a cranberry colour in the light.	4.0
Smell (0-5)	Heavy nose but a lighter wine, lots of berries and cherries.  Bold but not too sharp.	4.0
Taste (0-10)	Not sure if the wine has seen oak or not but has a layer of complexity to it that oak normally brings, more cherries and a little spice.  Dry and tannic but still with some level of balance.	8.0
	Total:	16.0 / 20  (80.0%)

This too might need to be a repeat try with another pork dish.....ribs maybe. Mmmmm ribs.....

Keep on drinking!

Chris & Shannon