Texier, Domaine de Pergaud Brezeme Vielle Serine

2010 Eric Texier Côtes du Rhône-Brézème Vieille Serine Domaine de Pergaud - France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côtes du Rhône-Brézème (10/15/2018)

Very tight. Has a beautiful frame and nuance, but do not touch again for a good while. Not sure exactly where this will end up, but it feels like an aristocratic wine. (91 points)
 
originally posted by VLM:
2010 Eric Texier Côtes du Rhône-Brézème Vieille Serine Domaine de Pergaud - France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côtes du Rhône-Brézème (10/15/2018)

Very tight. Has a beautiful frame and nuance, but do not touch again for a good while. Not sure exactly where this will end up, but it feels like an aristocratic wine. (91 points)
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Thanks! Been looking at the last of three bottles and priors were monolithic in 2019 and 2016.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Texier, Domaine de Pergaud Brezeme Vielle SerineWith a half-hour decant, very fresh, the combination of acid, fine-grain tannins, and Syrah fruit giving intense, sauvage energy. Flavor and aroma descriptors are not drawn to mind, will try again tomorrow and say more. Absent is palate-cosseting polish or alcoholic weight (at 12.5% abv) that might make this wine stand out in a group tasting, but, in addition to its sense of energy, on offer is a boatload of authentic charm, and it is quite attractive on its own terms.

I drank this by itself after my meal for learning purposes, but feel it would really shine at the table, with any meat dish - white or red - or perhaps even a risotto. A good and distinctive wine that puts the varietal fruit on display front and center. I drink few Syrah-based wines, and lack the sense regional differentiation that would be necessary to comment on this wine's expression of terroir.
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Hi Ian,

thanks for your note! What vintage was this bottle>
 
Karen - that would have been the 2010, of which I have 1 bottle remaining, and I plan to open it this year.

Keith - I felt I encountered bottle variation in my 07 Brèzeme, more than I'd've expected with six or eight bottles. By memory, one of my bottles was like the one you describe; another bottle was totally great. The rest. The rest, mostly opened within the past two years, were either okay or - to my buds - in decline. But I may have overestimated the natural life-span of this wine.
 
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