Collectors Lot 202
L’AVENTURE
6 – 750 ml bottles each – 18 bottles total
Consistently brilliant wines are produced by former St.-Emilion native, Stephan Asseo, who is now ensconced in the wine world of Paso Robles. These distinctively styled wines offer the power and exuberance of the fruit grown in this region along with a structured, delineated style. These are all big wines, with the reds fashioned from innovative blends and displaying significant aging potential.
L’Aventure Optimus Proprietary Red 2007
The sexiy offering is a blend of 45% Syrah, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 15% Petit Verdot. This wine gushes with blackberry and cassis fruit, smoky, burning embers, charcoal, and toasty new oak. Full-bodied and powerful with supple tannins and an overall impression of voluptuousness as well as extravagant fruit and opulence. RP 95
L’Aventure Estate Cuvee 2007
The wine is a blend of 44% Syrah, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 19% Petit Verdot and is big and dense. Full-bodied with abundant notes of creme de cassis, blackberries, smoke, graphite, and charcoal, a dense, layered beautifully textured effort. RP 95
L’Aventure Cote a Cote 2007This blockbuster is made of 40% Grenache, 40% Mourvedre, and 20% Syrah and boasts a dense purple color as well as a provocative bouquet of jammy black cherries, coffee beans, smoked meats, lavender, and spice. It is dense and opulent with a voluptuous texture, tremendous concentration, a layered finish, and abundant tannin (all well-concealed by the cascade of fruit and glycerin).  RP 95
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