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A Mourvèdre that tastes like La Landonne
Rami, GB: I have recently come across Château d'Or et de Gueules (Costières de Nîmes). The wine shop in England says their La Bolida Cuvée (£22.95) is from 95 year old Mourvèdre and tastes like a a topflight Côte Rôtie. They quote La Landonne rather than a Bandol. I am very curious. Could this be nearly true? me: I suspect it has taken longer to adorn your question with the correct accents than to answer it. I suppose a Mourvèdre could taste like Landonne even though there is no Mourvèdre planted in Côte Rôtie that I have ever come across. There can be a certain gaminess (brett alert!) in the northern Rhône just as...
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