Vintage Cellar Tasting - Grange de Payan

• Name: Domaine de Grange de Payan
• Variety: Grenache
• Region: Cotes du Rhone
• Country: France
• Year: 2011
• Price: $8.95
• Shop Review: Intensely spicy and precise, with lively red berry flavors and a hint of black pepper.  The Grenache, which makes up the majority of the wine, is deeper and more powerful, offering cherry and black raspberry qualities lifted by zesty minerality.
• My Review: The smell of this wine was bitter, and gave a hint of used gym clothes (as if I would even know what that smells like...who goes to the gym?).  Once tasted, the tannins were noticeably much stronger than the previous.  It was very bitter, especially on the aftertaste, it also had a very spice oriented flavor, specifically of pepper.
• I pity the food who is required to read my wine blogs.