 Hello, I just want to give you a quick kind of update of what's happening We're we're tasting through some of the latest Vintage's of Shetnaf to pop if you've been following our feed. We're gonna have a more extensive video and article About our impressions of the latest releases. It's just we had we've tasted through a few of the wines We actually have quite a few wines. They're still in France waiting to clear customs to come to us So we can taste them. I thought I'd just share a few initial impressions. So For those of you don't know brand new Shetnaf to pop is one of the most famous Wines in France in the southern Rome. They're big hot Big full bodied real ripe fruit, but yet this nice earthiness gaminess of these type of wines There's up to 18 Different grape varieties in the blend So Shetnaf to pop you have a lot of a lot of opportunity to change with how you blend the wines What kind of grapes you use although the best wines are primarily mostly granache wines can be aged in wood or Aged entirely in stainless steel or concrete, which is cool. So you get such a diversity of styles Shetnaf to pop is a wine that I think when I bring to People are just starting to get in the wine. They always always seem to like it's just really really funny It's one of the first areas where I cut my teeth. I'm fine French wine And you know, we've tasted a lot of older vintages before but I think professionally we know the recent vintages Bass we were there last year at a big event tasted through all the 15 16s Which are supposed to be extraordinary vintages now we're on some of the 17s and 18s for reds and even 19s for whites In general from last year. I'll link up our video, which is actually pretty going around pretty popular on YouTube I think Shereen generally likes the 15s more that more for the reds. All right Where I like the 16s more for the reds 15 though, I think the wines a little bit more More powerful the more tan and 16. I think there's a really nice intricate balance And more red fruit driven 17 from what we've tasted so far Have been similar to 8 similar to 15. I know they have problems with with granache The wines are gonna be really really kind of full-bodied darker fruit. So that's all the good stuff The bad The thing that they have a problem with as weather starts to heat up the winters start to heat up Temperatures start to rise the wines have lots of alcohol. I mean the latest vintages we have 15 5 They might really be 16 16 and a half when we were there in the cellar a lot producers say 16 percent that's what the grapes are coming into the cellar as so you just got to know that So wines that we really taste that were really impressed actually one that really impressed us was from a cooperative This is the cellar a cellar de prince shut off to pop. This is 2018. This was only in concrete This is from a cooperative. So it's inexpensive cost-effective great introduction to shut off to pop I thought this wine was very good. We polished off the bottle. No time is we're tasting through this, right? You liked it quite a bit 18 we tasted through the latest vintages of uh another 18 is uh Giro domain domain Giro another famous producer. This is the granache granache de pied 2018 100 granache. I think this was only in concrete from sandy soils Red fruit driven fine tannins Big yet elegant. I thought this one was pretty darn extraordinary Uh, only thing is you could definitely feel some heat which are going to feel these things another one We tasted through a peg out very famous classic producer with collectors This is kind of more of the old school shut off to pop. This is 2017 dark Leathery savory a little bit of animal game this while this is this is like hardcore Hardcore traditional shut off to pop kind of device of wine between sherry and I we like the cuvee reserva unfortunately the uh Cuvier Lawrence, which is an older wine that they said was a little bit corked. So I was a lot corked I was a little sad about that Producer we were introduced to the first time that was very impressive They represent kind of the new world star shut off to pop domain du casagne This uh, they sent us the basic which I thought was a little too oaky plus or two reserves the la fortune du pot La la fortune du pot. I'm sorry. My french is terrible 2016. I love this. I thought it was fine wine Extraordinary wine. I thought it tasted a lot like the more famous clotted pop producer and shut off to pop shereen like the the late note the late note they lean This is really odd. This is 2017 60 percent ganache 40 percent since so Was this really weird raisins and so shereen like this so much. Why did you like this so much? Do you remember? It was it had amazing tenons the texture was amazing Incredible or more like perfect big fruit big tenons big time structure. So yeah, uh, stay tuned to our channel Stay tuned to our facebook page. We're going to have more on shettin of depop was the wine start to clear customs And we start getting more of them in like I said if you like big big rich red wines With refinement wines that you think can go with things like a big steak roasted lamb type deal These are the wines to seek out Uh, the only problem is prices kind of keep rising as the demand for these wines go up But that's the price to pay for fine wine these days So guys if you like this follow our facebook page subscribe to our youtube channel exotic wine travel. I will see you soon