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Wine & Spirits: 93 points
“Virginie Combe is the sixth generation to helm her family’s 205-acre estate, the largest in the appellation, with nearly 150 of those acres in Vacqueyras proper. She sustains a strictly old-school regime of whole-bunch fermentations in concrete tanks, an approach that reads clearly in this meaty, chewy 2018. It’s dense and dark, with gum-sticking tannins, a black wine slow to reveal its details. But when it does, it shines, the cherry flavors threaded with notes of thyme and sunbaked stones. Decant it or hold it for another five to ten years.”
Review Date: October 2020

JebDunnuck.com: 91 points
“More rounded and fleshy than the 2017, yet also tannic, the 2018 Vacqueyras has classic notes of red and black fruits, garrigue, and pepper. Based on 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, and the rest Cinsault and Mourvèdre, brought up all in tank, it’s going to benefit from a year or two of bottle age yet keep for upwards of a decade.” – Jeb Dunnuck
Review Date: September 2019