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La Joie 2012

Name: La Joie 2012
Brand: Verite
Price: 388.90 EUR
Availability: InStock

Bordeaux-style Cabernet Sauvignon–dominant blend from one of California’s most highly rated wineries. The 2012 La Joie is profound, complex and already a modern classic.

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About this wine

La Joie is Vérité’s Cabernet-driven cuvée, drawing on top mountain and hillside vineyards across Sonoma County. The 2012 vintage is renowned for its purity and balance: dense blackcurrant and blackberry fruit interwoven with graphite, cedar, tobacco, violets and savoury earth. The palate is full-bodied and multi-layered, with incredible depth, fine but powerful tannins and a seemingly endless finish, showing why this wine regularly garners perfect or near-perfect scores.

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Tasting Note

Wine Advocate awarded 2012 La Joie a perfect score, describing an ultra-concentrated yet impeccably balanced wine packed with black fruit, graphite, spice and floral complexity, with great precision, silky but substantial tannins and a finish that goes on for nearly a minute.

In the glass

Opaque ruby-purple.

In the nose

Cassis, blackberry and blueberry with graphite, cedar, cigar box and violets.

On the palate

Full-bodied and multi-layered, with dense dark fruit, polished but powerful tannins and an extraordinarily long, focused finish.

Verite

Vérité is a high-end Sonoma project inspired by Bordeaux, producing small-lot, meticulously crafted blends like La Joie. Grapes from top mountain and hillside vineyards are vinified parcel by parcel, then blended for complexity and precision. The wines are dense, layered and built for decades of evolution.

Character of the wine

Grape Varieties

Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot

Vinification

Cabernet-based blend from select Sonoma vineyards, fermented in stainless steel and aged around 18–20 months in 100% new French oak barrels.

Classification

Sonoma County AVA, California

Style

Full-bodied & Structured

Aging potential

Long aging possible

Decant Time

2–3 hours

Drinking Temperature

16–18 °C

Body

Full

Conservative food pairing

Ribeye steak

Funky food pairing

Korean galbi

Music pairing

Classic rock

Art pairing

Expressionism

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