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This wine has a ruby red colour with violet glints. Elegant fragrances of very ripe dark fruit and pepper emerge from the nose.
The attack in the mouth is well-rounded and fruity before revealing silky tannins at the finish.
Notes :- Bettane + Desseauve 14.5/20
Wine characteristics
- Year : 2015
- Appellation : Saint-Chinian
- Colour : Red
- Grape types : 30 % Mourvèdre, 30 % Grenache, 30 % Syrah, 10% Carignan
- Soil : clay-chalk
- Harvest : manual
- Type of viticulture : converting to organic
- Contenance : 75cl
Tasting - Cellaring
- Appearance : ruby red
- Nose : dark fruit, spices
- Mouth : dense and fruity
- Serving temperature : 16°C
- Cellaring : 5 to 7 years
- Drink from : 2017
- Winemaking process : long vatting
- Maturation : 12 months in casks, of which 25% are new
Food-matching
- Food-matching : stuffed quails
Experts reviews :
Bettane + Desseauve
Rated wine : 14.5/20
Domain :
Four different undersoils make up this 56-hectare vineyard; first references to it date from 1623. The result is a varied range but with a common point that brings everything together for our pleasure: a real gourmet experience.
Appellation :
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This is the wine-growing area that has made the greatest progress in terms of quality over the past 30 to 40 years, morphing from coarse reds into a multitude of quality wines with very distinctive characteristics. For some time now, the whites have also kept pace with the reds.
There are 245,000 hectares of vineyards, producing 1,245,000 hl of wine, mainly reds.
The region is situated between the Massif Central, the Corbières and the Mediterranean, covering a wide range of ‘terroirs’ and appellations. There’s shale, sandstone, pebbles, limestone and alluvial deposits.
The climate is very much mediterranean, with hot summers and irregular and poorly distributed rainfall.
The grape types currently planted, apart from carignan, often date from after the Second World War, in line with the subsoil. This makes for complex, exciting wines.
Reflecting this dynamism, many of the vignerons produce wines that are non-AOC (vins de pays, table wines, etc.) as they keep on searching for quality and originality.
The Languedoc has 11 AOCs, the main ones of which are Coteaux du Languedoc, Saint-Chinian, Faugères, Minervois, Minervois-la-Livinière, Fitou, Corbières, Limoux and so on.
Recent vintages
- 2011: good year for whites, which are well-balanced and fresh. The reds are more even.
- 2012: the reds are mature and fresh, with lower alcohol content. The whites are fresh and fragrant.
- 2013: the finest vintage since 1998. The reds display freshness, quality tannins and fragrant finesse. The whites blend good balance with maturity and acidity.
- 2014: fresh, tender reds to be drunk young. Tonic, aromatic and fresh whites.