Sylvain Morey La Bastide du Claux Saint Jean (Red)

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Sylvain Morey La Bastide du Claux Saint Jean (Red)

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  • 2022

    Sylvain Morey La Bastide du Claux Saint Jean (Red) 2022 - OutstandingTasted by Elizabeth Gabay MW & Ben Bernheim

    Ruby red. Briney aromatics on the nose, remarkably restrained at first. On the palate, however, this is explosive, very textured, incredibly fresh, lively and full of joy, positively skipping and jumping out of the glass with soft, juicy, almost carbonic fresh-and-juicy red berry fruit and salted raspberries. Long fresh acidity and mouth-gripping tannins that keep going on the length. It's not all superficial though; this opens up to a wonderfully grippy, gravelly texture and gentle tannins that last well into the finish. Classy, refined, very fashionable, and structural first - it isn't aiming at being a one-dimensional fruit bomb, showing that Grenache (with a pinch of Cinsault) really is worth looking at for fine reds.

    Tasted August 2025

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We’re mother and son duo Elizabeth Gabay MW and Ben Bernheim. Between us, we’ve been involved in the wines of southern France for over 30 years. Elizabeth started working with the wines of Provence back in 1986, and for the past 20 years has lived on the eastern edge of south-east France. We’ve worked on three books on rosé: Rosé Understanding the Pink Wine Revolution (2018), Elizabeth Gabay’s Buyers Guide to the Rosés of Southern France (2021 e-guide) and, most recently Rosés of Southern France (2022).

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