Tasting - Domaine de Grange de Payan

Name: Domaine de Grange de Payan
Variety: 100% Granache
Region: Cotes du Rhone
Country: France
Year: 2011
Price: $8.95

Critic Review:  "Intensely spicy and precise, with lively red berry flavors and a hint of black pepper. The Grenache, which makes up the majority of the wine, is deeper and more powerful, offering cherry and black raspberry qualities lifted by zesty minerality."

My Review:  This wine, with a 15% alcohol content, has a strong smell of spices and pepper.  I was not too fond of the smell, and the taste was even worse, in my opinion.  It was a very bitter and dry wine.  I did like the blackberry taste, but the aftertaste was not very appealing.  I probably would not bother drinking this wine again.

I tasted this wine without food.