2021 Vin de France Odyssee

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Love the aromatics on this wine, with an emphasis on cold woodsmoke, soft tar and tomato leaf, alongside blueberry and blackberry fruits, with liqourice, pomegranate and a rinse of powerful garrigue, sage and white pepper spice. A brilliant vintage for Odysee, relatively cool so ensuring juice is front and centre. Rhone-Bordeaux blend (bottled as Vin de France) from Mathieu Dumarcher and Pierre Graffeuille, first vintage 2015, 3.2ha of vines across the Médoc, Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas.
94/100 Jane Anson

Odyssée 2021 (Vin de France; 59% Cabernet Sauvignon; 30% Grenache; 11% Mourvèdre; 13.5% alcohol; from Pierre Graffeuille and Matthieu Dumarcher). Crystalline and pure. It’s actually quite difficult to pick the components here and, tasted blind, you might imagine this as coming from somewhere like Limoux (i.e.: Rhone and Bordeaux varietals, if not quite the right ones)! Candied fruits. Candlewax. A gentle florality. Raspberry. Bramble. A little cassis with aeration. Quite strict, more so than other vintages of this wine. Not yet totally integrated. Needs time. A little dry on the finish too.
91/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business