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 | Julien's choice
Ollieux-Romanis, Atal Sia. |  | Atal Sia is a wine made from the grapes of old Carignan vines from the Boutenac terroir. Deep and concentrated the wine develops subtle aromas of dry scrubland. Essentially Mediterranean ... it will be a perfect companion for rich meat dishes in sauce and hearty grills. |
|  | Gabi's choice
La Baronne, Les Chemins. | | In the Lignères family, cultivating vines organically is not a fashion but rather a carefully studied pratice developed over the last ten years. All of the family's wines are superb : Alaric, Pièces de Roche, Las Vals... Les Chemins represents excellent quality for price for these superb vinfications from an exceptional terroir of the Corbières. A wine which is powerful, concentrated, elegant and complex... A treat for grilled meat or a stew. |
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Newcomers
Autumn is the most gourmet season of the year ; before it's too late, take time to indulge in a few pleasures... Le Clos des Fées (the Fairies' vineyard), White Grenache from old vines. Hervé Bizeul has carefully chosen this small vineyard plot hidden away on limestone and clay soil near Vingrau. The scents of this Grenache are as tempting and sensual as a Caravaggio painting... Not surprising that it attracts the vineyard fairies... Domaine Borie de Maurel, Esprit d'automne, 2007. The shortest days, golden light shining on the vines, the misty atmosphere of harvest time... It is autumn and time to savour this well named wine... Domaine Martinolles, Blanquette de Limoux méthode ancestrale. Pick some apples and pears, make a tart and uncork this queen of all Ancestral Blanquettes. |  |
Domaine le Cazal, Le pas de Zarat, 2006. A a full, voluptuous Minervois red to taste, absolutely, as soon as possible. The 2009 vintage will be the 10th in the line of this superb cuvée... and the harvest looks promising. Château Ollieux-Romanis, Alicante, 2007. The Bories family really knows how to make wine ! If you need any proof, take this difficult and ill-considered grape variety, Alicante. Deep in colour with violet tints, intense, concentrated scents... A magnificent Alicante ! A perfect companion for a good piece of grilled meat. |  |
Brut de Cuve
A post card from the Piedmont...Leaving the Languedoc-Roussillon, here are very different vineyard landscapes from our cousins in the Italian Piedmont region where rose brick villages cover hill tops surrounded by slopes cultivated in vines. In some areas the Occitan language is still spoken. What about the Barolo del Castel di Verduno ? This is a wine made from 100 % nebbiolo, elegant, soft and velvety with spicy scents and dried flowers, vinified by Marcella Bianco and his father. Yes, of course we thought of you : we have brought back just a few cases... Shh, there are not many left ! |  | Harvest at La Rochellierre...Under the hot Fitou sun, the harvest started on the 12th of August for muscat grapes ; the grapes are deliciously sweet with a wonderful honey taste. Once in the cellar, Jean-Marie will know how to tame the sugar content to transform it into pure pleasure for us this coming winter with a fresh and lively Muscat de Rivesaltes... More proof that there are some happy wine makers making happy wines. |  | Grapes turning red at the Domaine le Cazal...At La Caunette, we followed the traces of Zarat. Who ever was Zarat ? A Greek lost in the Minervois two centuries B.C., fascinated by the dry mineral landscape 300m above the Mediterranean sea... and a silky, exhuberantly aromatic wine of pure velvet ? The Pas de Zarat is a footpath which crosses an impressive rock outcrop...And the wine made by the Derroja family is just as impressive. |  | Spring in la Livinière...The vines of Michel Escande are as the image portrays them : planted on a high plateau overlooking La Livinière. Lots of fresh air, somewhat above day to day life with breathtaking views towards the Pyrenees. The vineyard magician, Maître Escande, regally translates his terroir into wine, extending his inspiring, open air anticonformist approach in the vineyard to embrace refreshing innovation in the wines of Borie de Maurel. |  | At Murviel les Montpellier...During the 18th century, the President Jefferson imported wines into America from Yquem and St Georges d'Orques. This illustrious past has inspired us for the future. The present is just as impressive at the Domaine de la Marfée whereThierry Hasard makes tasty, refined wines of great class under enchanting names... Magic, simply magic ! |  |
Passing through Feuilla...We have discovered Alban Michel, a craftsman wine maker who, having left his native Lorraine region has set his clogs down in Feuilla where he cultivates century old Carignan grapes. Full bodied, rich and silky, these carignans overide the rough reputation that they too often suffer from to bring us simple pleasure with no fuss... Domaine Les sabots d'Hélène |  |
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