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Plush 93+ and 94+ Point Reds from Xavier Vignon!
With labels you'll find only at Vin Chicago...
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We work hard to get the coolest, most interesting wines for our customers. To obtain today's plush and powerful reds, we pushed our friend Xavier Vignon so hard to ship them that both ended up in Chicago with one-of-a-kind labels!
For the "Cuvée Cancan," Xavier had not finished designing the label so he affixed our bottles with one from the Swedish market. In the case of the "Arcane VI," the rush to ship to Vin Chicago left no time to correct a typo on the label. For both wines, the bottles we offer today are the only ones released with these curiosities.
"2016 was just like a dream."
- Xavier Vignon
Does that make these extraordinary 2016 red wines as valuable as the 1918 Inverted Jenny airmail stamp? Probably not, but as good as they are drinking, who cares!
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016 Xavier Vignon "Esprit Français - Cuvée Cancan"
Côtes du Rhône
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Southern Rhône Valley, France
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Dedication and persistence. That's why this very French wine came to Chicago wearing a label from Sweden.
We purchase Xavier's wines
through an agent. A very smart, persistent and dedicated agent. Did we mention persistent? When she finds a wine she knows is right for us, she'll stop at nothing to get the details worked out and get it on a westbound ship. In the case of the Cuvée Cancan, the wine was in the bottle, but a label had not yet been created. She told Xavier... "the wine is sold, it needs to ship!" Without time to finish the planned label, Xavier dug up this label from the Swedish market. For the rest of the world, the 2016 Cuvée Cancan won't ship until next year. For Vin Chicago customers, this gem is available to buy today!
The 2016 Cuvée Cancan is a deeply concentrated Grenache-based Southern Rhône red with perfectly ripe red fruit flavors and classic garrigue, fresh herbs, floral and pepper notes. Chalk it up to the profound 2016 vintage that this offers all that, along with a lifted back end and a polish we don't typically find in a $15.99 wine.
It's a delicious bottle of wine that will put a broad smile on your face and the faces of whoever you serve it to. As Jeb Dunnuck's 93+ point review makes clear, Xavier really nailed it with this one...
"A blend of 50% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre, and the rest Syrah, Cinsault, and Counoise, the 2016 Côtes du Rhône Esprit Français Cuvée Cancan offers a deeper, denser, more masculine personality. Black fruits, smoked earth, black olive, and gravelly minerality all give way to a big, rich, concentrated wine that has building tannin, a big mid-palate, and fine, elegant, yet certainly present tannin. Give it a few years."
- 93+ Points, Jeb Dunnuck (8/28/2018)
This over-delivering red is beautiful to drink now and over the next 3 to 5 years. Only 50 cases have been released from the winery, and they are all at Vin Chicago!
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2016 Xavier Vignon
"Arcane VI - Les Amoureux"
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ôtes du Rhône,
Southern Rhône Valley, Franc
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Xavier reserves the Arcane series for his very best and most innovative wines. The "Arcane V - Le Pape" Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which we featured two years ago, was the first wine he made using an innovative barrel-in-tank aging technique. An epic wine, it sold for a $115 per bottle. Today we present to you the first Côtes du Rhône he has produced using this extremely expensive technique. Like the CdP, it is a beauty - and it sells for roughly a quarter the price!
Every grape used to produce "Les Amoureaux" came from a vine of at least 100 years of age located in Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Lirac, Rasteau and other prestigious, village designated sites.
Rich and powerful, this voluptuous, ripe red can hold its own with powerful bottlings from Châteauneuf and with big, forward red blends from Napa Valley and throughout California.
Dark fruit flavors of
black raspberry, blackberry, plum and blueberry lead the way with complexities of roasted herbs, dark earth, coffee, olive and black pepper following close behind. On the finish,
these sexy flavors are rounded out by a brilliant balance of acidity and soft, firm tannins. The specialness of the vintage and Xavier's technique shines through brightly. This wine is a delight to drink now and will continue to shine for at least another decade.
 Something special to note about the bottles we're offering today is that there is a typo on the front label. The name is incorrectly printed as Arcane IX rather then Arcane VI. As with the Cuvée Cancan, the bottles of Les Amoureaux we offer today were the first to be released by Xavier. In the rush to prepare the shipment for Vin Chicago, there was no time to correct the mistake. We doubt that will make them as valuable as the Inverted Jenny stamps, but it's something fun that makes these bottles unique.
If you and your friends love big, juicy reds this one should not be missed. Try sharing it with someone who loves wine like The Prisoner. You may just convert them to the beauty and value of the Southern Rhône!
Calling it "a rocking wine," Jeb Dunnuck gushes out this 94+ point review...
"Sourced from parcels in Lirac, Vacqueyras, Gigondas, Rasteau, and higher elevation sites in Beaumes de Venise, the 2016 Côtes du Rhône Arcane Vi Les Amoureux (mostly Grenache) offers an awesome bouquet of black cherries, blackberries, pepper, garrigue, and olives. Beautifully textured, balanced, and layered, with fabulous purity, it's a rocking wine that has loads of fruit, yet has the purity and elegance that makes this vintage so special. Drink it over the coming 15-20 years."
- 94+ Points, Jeb Dunnuck (8/28/2018)
Our price for this rare and wonderful red beats the only other listing in the country. If you're a fan of full-throttle $50+ Châteauneuf-du-Pape or big red blends from around the world, you're going to love this one.
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