It's deep, rich, medium to full-bodied, and has a great finish. 'A blend of 50% Grenache, 40% Mourvèdre and the rest Cinsault and Syrah, the 2016 Côtes du Rhône Cuvée Vieilles Vignes offers a gorgeous bouquet of cassis, blueberries, lavender, cured meats, and graphite. Pairs with g rilled beef rib - Veal Columbo - Pork ribs slightly spiced The Mourvèdre keeps this tight and fresh. These big red stone are restituting heat coming from the sun at night and bring power and structure to the wine.Īlso the blend features vines coming from sandy clays, which are light and rather fresh soils: this allowed the wine to maintain a freshness and vivacity.īouquet of cassis, blueberries, lavender, cured meats, and graphite. We also integrated grapes coming from plots located on red rocky clay soils also named “garrigues”. These plots particular soils and orientation allowed grapes to reach an optimal level of ripeness while conserving a good acidity level. We could obtain in this wine empyreumatical hints without the use of barrels. We used Clay and limestone plots located on the hillside where old Grenache naturally express roasted hints. The diversity of terroirs used in this blend allows this wine to combine freshness and balance. Listen to “Uyea Sound” below.Xavier Vignon Cotes du Rhone Rouge Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Organic is made from 50% Grenache, 40% Mourvèdre, 5% Syrah and 5% Cinsault. Lost Wishes has long been a sort of Holy Grail for Cure fans - its songs are really quite lovely - and this is the first time it’ll be available on CD/vinyl/digital. One of the most exciting inclusions are the four instrumentals from Lost Wishes, a cassette released in 1993 that was only available via mail-order. It’s an obvious wealth of material, ranging from demos and unreleased tracks to remixes and live performances. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea (Partscheckruf Mix) **.Trust (Instrumental Demo) ĬD 3: Lost Wishes / Studio Out-Takes / 12″ Remixes / Live / Rare / Previously Unreleased.A Foolish Arrangement (Instrumental Demo).To Wish Impossible Things (Instrumental Demo).This Twilight Garden (Instrumental Demo).A Letter To Elise (1990 Demo) aka “Cut”.Wish is being reissued in a variety of formats (many of which are selling out quickly, especially the vinyl), but I’m opting for the 3CD set.ĬD 1: Original album remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road StudiosĬD 2: Demos, All previously unreleased versions (* - Unreleased track) And now, 30 years later, Wish is finally getting the same deluxe treatment that previous Cure albums, like the aforementioned Disintegration and Faith, have received. I still have that old black cassette as a treasured memento of those years, though I don’t listen to it any more. Thanks to countless hours spent listening to the album on the bus and in my room, songs like “Apart,” “From the Edge of the Green Sea,” “A Letter to Elise,” and “To Wish Impossible Things” are permanently seared into my memory. My friend Leah gave me a copy of Wish that she’d dubbed onto an old black cassette for my 16th birthday, and it soon became a frequent companion and source of solace for the remainder of my high school years. But then there’s 1992’s Wish, which was the first Cure album I ever heard in its entirety and the one with which I’m most familiar. What’s my favorite Cure album, you ask? Well, of course there’s their undisputed masterpiece, 1989’s Disintegration while 1981’s Faith was the band at their most melancholy and spiritual.

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