Eric`s Mad Cat hits the spot..on day 2..Meow!

Over on one of the other boards, Eric Texier of CdR and Burgundy fame, enlightens his fans on how his wines are shaping up. I was intrigued so scoured around Edmonton for a possible find. Chat Fou was the only example I could find, wondering if it was for the American market alone as I could find no mention on his website?

TN: 2011 Chat Fou Cotes du Rhone Eric Texier.

12.5% alc, good natural cork, $20 Cdn, aged concrete tanks. 80% Grenache, plus some Clairette and Marsanne.

The color is quite light, nice aromatic aroma with raspberry, currant and slight pepper. Initial entry thought was that even this light CdR could use some food. Quite easy drinking, not at all tannic and not a big structured wine. Pleasant for sure but thought some bitterness on the finsh. However on day 2, filled out quite nicely, riper too and went well with a great homemade burger and onion relish. Meow!

[Jenise]

'Fou' means 'mad'? (I'm presuming you speak French.)

Sounds good. I love Eric's wines but don't recall seeing that bottling here, and in fact nowadays where I live all the good wine people are gone and I don't even accidentally run into the wines the way I used to.

Oui, c`est ca Jenise.

We had the 2013 a couple of weeks ago when Eric was in town. And it was delicious. But perhaps not much is made? I remember it was the one wine that was unavailable for purchase, or something like that.