Cotations
Robert PARKER
Note : 90-92 / 100
The Banyuls Terra Vinya is incredibly rich with a dense purple color and a refreshing, sweet personality. Made primarily from Grenache, it offers huge notes of chocolate, cocoa, and black fruits. This wine represents the French equivalent of a vintage Port. It reflects the impeccable winemaking of Michel Chapoutier.
Robert PARKER Wine Advocate #145 (Feb 2003)
Note : 96 / 100
The Banyuls Terra Vinya is incredibly rich with a dense purple color and a refreshing, sweet personality. Made primarily from Grenache, it offers huge notes of chocolate, cocoa, and black fruits. This wine represents the French equivalent of a vintage Port. It reflects the impeccable winemaking of Michel Chapoutier.
Robert M. PARKER Jr (THE WINE ADVOCATE / USA) Octobre 2000
It also exhibits a big, smoky nose, but it is unevolved and less nuanced and detailed compared to the 1998. The 1999 is a big, chewy, rich effort with moderate sweetness as well as a roasted chocolate/blackberry-laced personality. It should become more delineated with cellar aging, and should come close to equaling what was produced in 1998.
Note : 90-92 / 100
Robert M. PARKER Jr (THE WINE ADVOCATE / USA) Octobre 2000
Lastly, do not overlook the 1998 and 1999 Banyuls Terra Vinya. The exquisite 1998 was produced from 90-year old Carignan vines with a touch of Grenache included. Yields were a minuscule 10 hectoliters per hectare. It offers a big, smoky, chocolatey, black cherry and berry-scented nose, marvelous intensity and purity, a luxurious texture, and a moderately sweet, long, pure finish balanced by decent acidity and sweet tannin. It will drink well for 15+ years. As most readers know, this is France’s quasi-answer to vintage port.
Note : 93 / 100
Robert M. PARKER Jr (THE WINE ADVOCATE / USA) February 1999
Michel Chapoutier has turned in some spectacular performances with limited production (around 4,000 500 ml bottles) Banyuls. The 1995 Banyuls Terra Vinya, and 1996 Banyuls Terra Vinya are rich, chocolatey wines that smell like cappuccinos infused with cherry liqueur. Rich and pure, but not the least bit heavy, it is good to see another top quality producer emerge from Banyuls, one of the most spectacular appellations in southern France.
Note : 92 / 100
Robert M. PARKER Jr (THE WINE ADVOCATE / USA) February 1999
Michel Chapoutier has turned in some spectacular performances with limited production (around 4,000 500 ml bottles) Banyuls. The 1995 Banyuls Terra Vinya, and 1996 Banyuls Terra Vinya are rich, chocolatey wines that smell like cappuccinos infused with cherry liqueur. Rich and pure, but not the least bit heavy, it is good to see another top quality producer emerge from Banyuls, one of the most spectacular appellations in southern France.
Note : 91 /100
Dégustation
Robe : robe grenat intense.
Nez : arômes de fruits cuits, de cacao, nez très intense.
Bouche : équilibre parfait entre l’alcool et la sucrosité. Grande persistance.
Les Conseils du Sommelier
Apéritif
Fromage bleu
Desserts au chocolat
Millésime 1999
Le cépage
100 % Grenache.
Le sol
Les coteaux se trouvent sur des sols très anciens de schistes de l’ère primaire peu profonds et très pauvres.
Les vendanges
La récolte est faite manuellement, les raisins sont vendangés très mûrs avec un potentiel de plus de 15 % d'alcool.
La vinification
La vendange est égrappée et foulée.
La macération est longue, plus d’un mois, avec un mutage sur grains pour favoriser l’extraction des arômes et des tanins.
L'élevage
En fûts de chêne pendant 16 mois.
Volume d'alcool
16%
