Domaine du Pegau

This was one of our favorite tasting rooms during our visit and we were so surprised by how reasonable the prices were (granted the Euro is quite weak vs. the dollar right now). The gentleman that helped us was pretty friendly and didn’t mind speaking English to us. We got to taste a bunch of the wines. Tasting was free as is with most of the wineries (I guess Cali is an exception?). We really thought the wines at Pegau really suited our palate. Another tasting room described their wines as more «animalistic»? Have no idea what that means but I guess we love animalistic wines?!
We didn’t end up buying a wine from Chateauneuf du Pape but did buy their value priced wine from the Cote du Rhone for like 10 Euros. Here’s a description of the 2013 wine from a website i found:
NV Domaine du Pégau «Plan Pégau» Red Blend, France
Inky garnet in color, this wine smells of garrigue, violets, and cassis. In the mouth thick powdery tannins wrap firmly around flavors of barnyard, cassis, licorice, black cherry and loamy earth. The barnyard flavor lingers in the finish with a hint of leather. An odd blend of Grenache, Syrah, Merlot, Alicante, Aramon Noir, and Carignan. 13.5% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9.