Sine Qua Non, 'Le Coeur Gagne' Assortment Case, 2013
Sine Qua Non, 'Le Coeur Gagne' Assortment Case, 2013
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Le Coeur Gange ('The Heart Wins') is an assortment case of Sine Qua Non's legendary 2013 vintage, featuring two of the top wines from that year: Jusqu'à l'os ('To the Bone'), a powerful, inky Grenache, and Le Supplement ('The Supplement'), a softer, yet dark Syrah. Jusqu'à l'os is an incredibly rich and ripe wine, with notes of blackberry, cherry, raspberry, rosemary, smoke, and dried flowers, with a great zippy acidity and jagged tannins. Le Supplement is a spicier, lusher, more floral wine, creamy in its body, still with a host of ripe fruit we would expect from California.
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Score 96 & 98
A darker, more potent side of Grenache comes through in the 2013 Grenache Jusqu'à l'Os. This powerhouse wine is nowhere near ready to drink. Swaths of tannin enshroud a core of plum, dark fruit in this muscular, brooding Grenache from Sine Qua Non. Readers will have to be patient. The 2013 is 79% Grenache, 18% Syrah and 3% Petite Sirah, all from Eleven Confessions, done with 89% whole clusters. Extended time in barrel has given the 2013 Syrah Le Supplement much of its dense, creamy feel. Dark, powerful and sumptuous in the glass, this is a wine of texture above all else. Floral and spice overtones from the whole clusters add appealing strands of aromatic lift. The 2013 is 89% Syrah, 6% Petite Sirah, 3% Grenache and 2% Viognier, all from Eleven Confessions, done with 28% whole clusters.
