Domaine du Coulet (Matthieu Barret) Ardèche Black Flag

Delicious, elegant, very precise, light on its feet with good complexity. Mostly very savory, lots of olive tapenade on the nose, a little bit of a smoky twinge, supporting faint wild blackberry and something like fruit roll-ups (not really "candied fruit", but close to that.) Acidity is high and tight- sometimes a little on the thin and tart side. The fruit feels VERY early-picked here and at times it's a little sharp. But in the end it's well-balanced, certainly very …