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2017 L'Aventure Cuvee Les Demoiselles

Removed from a professional wine storage facility; Purchased direct from winery

Ends Sunday, 7pm Pacific

RATINGS

97Jeb Dunnuck

...offers a dark, classic Mourvèdre bouquet of savory black fruits, ground herbs, chocolate, cured meats, and graphite. Full-bodied, pure, and elegant with ultra-fine tannins, it's a beautiful, layered, seamless wine...

95The Wine Advocate

...gregarious cranberry jelly, raspberry and strawberry jam, boysenberry, pomegranate and tangerine peel aromas with earthy notions of dried leaves, tree bark, grapefruit rind, dusty earth and rose petals. Medium to full-bodied, it’s silky and unfurls slowly to lifted floral and amaro-tinged red and blue fruits, with an incredibly melting, pixelated frame and juicy acidity to carry the long, layered finish.

95Vinous / IWC

Vibrant cherry and black currant aromas show excellent clarity and pick up a bright mineral nuance and a hint of pungent flowers with air. Juicy and tightly focused on the palate, delivering impressive depth and intense black and blue fruit and violet pastille flavors that become livelier on the back half. Concludes with bright finishing cut, an echo of sweet dark berries and candied flowers and fine-grained tannins that add subtle grip.

PRODUCER

L'Aventure

L’Aventure is a 127-acre estate in Paso Robles. It was established in 1996 by Stephan Asseo, a native of France who studied oenology in Burgundy and later started estates in Bordeaux. He started his winery on the central California Coast in order to be more innovative with blends than the strict French AOC regulations allowed. L’Aventure’s first commercial vintages were in the late 1990s. Flagship wines include Optimus and Estate Cuvee, both of which are Cabernet Sauvignon/Syrah blends. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that “Asseo continues to go from strength to strength, producing a fabulous portfolio of wines that makes L’Aventure one of the bright, shining reference points for the region. This is one of the California Central Coast superstars…”

REGION

United States, California, Central Coast, Paso Robles

Paso Robles AVA is midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, and it is considered one of the West Coast’s most exciting winemaking regions. With its hot, sometimes searingly dry and sunny weather, it is especially good country for growing warm climate grapes such as Syrah, Grenache and Mourvedre. Because many Paso Robles wineries have been successful with blending these grapes into Rhone Valley-style wines, it is known as the Rhone zone of California. The AVA was created in 1983 and there are 32,000 vineyard acres. In late 2014 the AVA was divided into 11 smaller sub-appellations, so starting with 2015 vintages labeling will become more specific on Paso Robles wines, which will now also list sub-appellations. Located in San Luis Obispo County, Paso Robles, the town and its surrounding area, was traditionally a farming and ranching region. But from a few dozen wineries in the early 1990s to more than 200 today, the area is quickly becoming known for wine and risk-taking winemakers.

VINTAGE

2017 L'Aventure Cuvee Les Demoiselles