From vines up to 100-years-old that yield an incredibly low 1/4th a ton per acre (about the lowest yield you’ll ever see), this has the richness of the D-66 but with a much purer expression of the extraordinary terroir of Maury – especially now with a bit of age.
Dunnuck loved it even more than the highly-touted 2010 and 2011, which we sold out of at $30, saying:
The 2014 Courier is slightly more Burgundian than the 2013 yet offers similar notes of crushed flowers, bouquet garni, game, leather, and assorted red and black fruits. It too is silky and seamless on the palate, with beautiful tannins. It’s another Cotes Catalanes to enjoy over the coming decade.
What really blew us away about this was the incredibly long finish, in which a gentle, very beautiful and exotic sweetness emerged…almost Musigny-like in its purity and elegance. (As Dunnuck regognized with his Burgundy comparison.) Certainly something I’d never expect in a huge Southern French Grenache-based wine like this. (Outside of the very greatest old style Chateauneufs.)