MORGAN, Cotes du Crow's, Monterey
Description
- Vintage: 2018
- Origin: Monterey, California, USA.
- Taste guide: This Rhone-style blend has a rich ruby red colour, highlighted with purple edges. Pomegranate, dried herbs, and floral aromas jump out of the glass. The wine is medium-full bodied with soft tannins; it offers a mouthful of red fruit (cherry most prominent but also other red berries), blackberry and plum. Oak is definitely an underlying nuance throughout but not in an overpowering way and hence doesn’t detract from the other aforementioned flavours.
- 75cl - 14.5% - Screwcap Opening
- Food pairings: Its weight and balance make it a perfect pairing with anything off the grill.
Reliably good, year after year and this vintage is no exception. 4/5 on Vivino
Cotes du Crow’s is a unique blend of the two noble, predominant red varietals of France’s southern Rhône Valley: grenache and syrah. A small amount (3%) of tempranillo is included, whose earthier spice and dark fruit are beautiful complements to the grenache and syrah.
The wine was fermented in open top tanks and received manual punch-downs. This enabled good extraction and structure development with pleasant tannins. After fermentation, the wine was transferred to French oak barrels. The 11% new oak gives the wine subtle spice and vanilla characters without overpowering the elegant fruit profile.
£20+ at a few UK merchants when checked (Jan ‘25) so a slight saving here. Only 12 bottles sourced.