Eric Texier (Pergaud), Cotes du Rhone, Saint Julien Saint Alban Vieille Serine

Some pretty Syrah aromatics, but the palate lacks fruit and is oddly overwhelmingly citric and tart. Not enjoyable. Food didn't help.

2010 vintage

A little less expressive than the previous bottle last year, though still good, so will plan to drink the one remaining bottle in the next year.

2010 vintage

Totally beautiful. Aromatically expressive. Clean, which is reassuring for a fourteen year old wine with next to no added sulphur. No more than medium plus weight. Perfect understated sweetness. Good fruit still. Earth. Tasting young. Lovely discrete profile. Elegant for syrah. Fine grained tannin. Long. Balanced. In a good place now for sure. Bought on release and unmoved for twelve years.

2010 vintage

Firefly w Bakers. Fruit remains quite lovely on nose and palate, and acidity no longer sticks out at all. Completely clean. Drink or hold.

2010 vintage

Rich plum flavors, light refreshing acidity and easy tannins. Fun

2019 vintage

This was heavy, pruney and too Southern-Rhonish for me

2010 vintage

Lovely Syrah nose and fruit on the palate to back it up. Acidity a bit noticeable at the end, but generally well-balanced. Drink or hold.

2010 vintage

I've had a few other bottles that I didn't note in the last year, but they were all great and this is maybe the best of all. The mouthfeel is all velvet Syrah with dark fruit wrapped in savory notes. There is still tannin and I really love the shape and structure. This is great now and might even get better. I did decant it for sediment though, I hope Eric is OK with that.

2010 vintage

Another bottle, another confusing result. Mostly, I haven't liked my bottles of the Texier wines, this or the Brezème, with a few notable exceptions. But at some point of the bottle, I'll get a glass that seems to be tremendous. Then the next one seems excessively acidic and laced with volatile acids. Eric is well-liked and respected, he seems sincere and very knowledgable, and he gave a great interview on Dalton's radio show. So I don't want to do him …

2010 vintage

Paired with grilled salmon w dill-mayo sauce, fava beans, Japanese sweet potatoes. Spice/sweetness good against these flavors, tannins soft enough not to overpower the salmon. Finished the bottle with chicken legs in mushroom sauce, eggplant. Equally good

2010 vintage

Pretty Syrah fruit, forceful acidity. Lots to offer. Better the next day

2010 vintage

Drinking beautifully. Delicious.

2010 vintage

A glass of liquid violets. Floral, small dark berries, very cool with great acidity. Lean, juicy, super delicious right now. Fantastic wine in its own right. Bravo.

2010 vintage

Delicious. Pure, touch rustic. Good lift. Hard to think of a better cotes du rhone.

2010 vintage

Consistent with prior note. Feels like this has a lot in reserve too, which bodes well for the cellar.

2010 vintage

Til indrefilet av rein. Trenger litt tid før den åpner opp. Bjørnebær pen vanilje , fin balanse. 1 dag i åpen flaske: Fin aromatisk , balansert

2010 vintage

Over five years since my last bottle. This is showing a softer palate, wider, less taut than in the past, still blue/black fruited, with savories and complexities starting to emerge: salted meats, roast beef, olives, and a light funk. The tannins are breaking down and the wine is heading into a secondary phase that is quite savory and enjoyable. Even better on the second night, where the wine attains better focus. Really quite good.

2010 vintage

I'm with Salil. This is starting to get really delicious, especially if you give it a bit of air. With some food, the structure of the wine is subsumed and the whole is more than the sum of parts.

2010 vintage

The bright red fruit and florality I remembered on release are still there, but it's showing so much more complexity now. It's more savoury than I recall with lots of smoky, briny, and lightly meaty flavours framing the fruit, and the finish is all earth and mineral. It's still very young and still showing a bit of grainy tannin on the back end, but it's absolutely thrilling now. What a fantastic wine.

2010 vintage

P&p; drinking pretty well right away, but saving 2/3 of the bottle for tomorrow to see what happens. Day 1: Smells good, with some general depth to it - olive, darkish fruit/violet, moist earth, and touches of licorice and bay laurel. Good acidity. Tannins are firm but fairly smooth. Some fleshiness, without being heavy. Tasty/moreish, characterful, enjoyable wine. Seems very cellarable, but not crazy to drink now. Day 2 (refilled 500 ml bottle refrigerated overnight and brought back to temp): …

2010 vintage

Hi acid and super fresh and laden with crunchy stony flavors. Approachable now but this will continue to age gracefully for many years.

2010 vintage

Great bottle. Meaty savory aromas along with olives dominate the nose, very characteristic Northern Rhône nose. On the palate there’s an expressive black fruit with good concentration, but there’s also nice acidity keeping things lifted and fresh. Some tannins are apparent but they’re not particularly rough. This is fine to drink now but has all the bones necessary to age too.

2010 vintage

Served blind. Ripe and dark, opaque in the glass, with a blue-fruited ripe sweetness to the nose and a fair amount of gritty tannin. Some savory qualities but no pepper reduction that to me indicates Syrah; we thought this might be a Mourvedre-based CA Rhone blend, in fact it reminded me a bit of an Edmunds St John Rocks & Gravel with its grapey upfront sweetness + good structure. Much better for me on day 2, when the sweetness largely …

2010 vintage

Decanted for 1.5 hours then brought to dinner and given a little more air. Very tight and structured still, only a sense of salinity and a little smoke emerged. Probably should have been decanted for a whole day. Oops.

2010 vintage

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2010 vintage

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Eric Texier (Pergaud), Cotes du Rhone, Saint Julien Saint Alban Vieille Serine

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