Tasting notes from “Les 5 du Vin” website
Marc Vanhellemont honors us by sharing his flattering tasting comments on Le Chasse-Coeur 2022, La brusquembille 2022 and Au Coeur du Ventabren 2020.
Wine Guide Dussert-Gerber 2024
CDR-Villages Roaix red L’As du Pique 2021, beautiful garnet color, a wine with the persistent scent of morello cherry and ripe blackcurrant, well typified, full-bodied and fragrant on the palate, of beautiful frame, it is generous and combines structure and roundness in the mouth, to be expected on a necklace of lamb with ginger. 90/100
CDR-Villages Roaix white L’Atout du Pique 2020, marked by its white Grenache, very well aged (vinification half in half barrels and half in stainless steel tanks, fermentation for three months and then aging on lees without stirring), this wine is specific with its pear and anise nuances, fresh and suave, round finish, which combines intensity and flexibility, to be expected on zucchini fritters or fried cod with potatoes. 91/100
CDR-Villages Roaix rosé L’Ambigu 2022, from vines of 45 years of age with yield of 40 hl/ ha, which took root on a sandy soil resulting from the erosion of saffron, nose present with notes of violet and prune, a wine rich in color, dense and a beautiful aromatic persistence in the final. 89/100
CDR red La Brusquembille 2022, 70% Syrah, 25% Carignan and 5% Grenache coming from plots rich in sand and clays of alluvial origin located in the place called «Piquebas» surrounding the estate, intense purple color, with powerful and tasty tannins, is spicy and very fragrant (blackberry, wild strawberry, musk...), of ample structure. 88/100
Rasteau red 2020, majority in Grenache, the rest in Mourvèdre, clay-limestone soil, a wine of character, powerful, intense in the nose as in the mouth (blackcurrant, garrigue, liquorice), with coated tannins. 92/100
Portraits of winegrowers
Find the video "Winegrowers' words" also on the blog @vinsderasteau
Parution LeRouge&leBlanc – N°142 Sept-Oct-Nov
Cover page
Page 21
RVF – Le Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France 2020 – pages 669 and 670.
Favorite – LA REVUE DU VIN DE FRANCE
A native of Franche-Comté, Olivier Tropet is a trained oenologist. In 1998, he recovers the exploitation and the vines of his grandfather in the valley of the Rhone, with Roaix, with the foot of the Ventabren massif and with the east of the soil of Rasteau, a vineyard oriented east / south-east face at Mont Ventoux. In his early days, he delivers his grapes to the cooperative. In 2007, he decided to produce his first vintage at the estate. The wine comes from manually harvested plots, cultivated naturally, without weed killers and without chemical fertilizers. We follow Olivier Tropet for several vintages and each time. his wines seduce us by their correctness of tone.
