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The 2006 Grande Reserve tastes more like a great Chateauneuf du Pape than a Cotes du Rhone-Villages Seguret. There is plenty of tannin, earth, garrigue, spice box, and pepper characteristics as well as oodles of black cherry and black currant fruit. This beautifully complex wine with tremendously expressive aromatics cuts a broad, full-bodied mouthfeel, but do not think it can’t age as it possesses plenty of structure and tannin. It should hit its stride in two years, and last for a decade thereafter. 

Wine Advocate/Robert Parker 91 points,

February 2009

Tradition 2007

Fresh, with floral, red currant and blackberry fruit notes backed by a tangy, mineral-tinged finish.  Juicy and racy.  Grenache, Syrah and Carignan.  Drink now through 2010.

Wine Spectator/James Molesworth 88 points,

June 2009

Favourite Quotations

"One of the reference point estates in the southern Cotes du Rhone, Domaine de Mourchon is situated in the charmingly beautiful Provencal hill top village of Seguret. This is a tour de force in winemaking from the Cotes du Rhone-Villages of Seguret. Kudos to Domaine de Mourchon! These splendid cuvees are all worth buying by the caseload."

Robert Parker

"Domaine de Mourchon is the unquestioned leader in Séguret"

Stephen Spurrier

Mourchon is "amongst the most interesting 5 per cent of wine made today"

Jancis Robinson

"An energetically-run property in Côtes du Rhône-Villages can make an outstanding wine, in spite of its apparent geological hurdles. Such is the case with Walter McKinlay’s Domaine de Mourchon located up in the hills above the Ouveze River, behind the striking cliffside village of Séguret."

James Molesworth