The black-on-black label of Texas-based C.L. Butaud is as laborious to overlook as is it’s to learn. I channeled my internal Johnny Money to style this pair of latest releases.
2020 C.L. Butaud Stop & Desist Purple Mix Texas Excessive Plains – A tempranillo-heavy mix with cinsault, grenache, and counoise added (if I’m studying the web site proper, the mix appears to alter continually). This tastes like Texas, in all the perfect methods: Densely fruity with notes of currants and spiced cherries, impregnated with bacon fats, drying hay, and woodsy however candy mesquite. Heavy on the palate, this feels even weightier than its 14.1% abv, pushed doubtless by the beefy cinsault and counoise within the combine. Tart on the end, this is among the few purple wines I might see pairing with a basic plate of Texas barbeque, the wine dwelling to inform the story. B / $48
2019 C.L. Butaud Tempranillo Texas Excessive Plains – 100% tempranillo, and shockingly, a lot brighter and extra approachable. Notes of spiced cherries and milk chocolate soften into each other in a energetic, gently acidic wine that winds its method towards a barely natural however flippantly candy end. Deftly balanced and difficult to place down, it’s among the finest Texas wines I’ve encountered in latest reminiscence. A- / $54
2019 C.L. Butaud Tempranillo Texas Excessive Plains
$54
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