France has the world's largest Grenache presence, with more hectares planted than any variety other than Merlot. The majority of Grenache is planted in the southern Rhône valley.
The grapes are large with thin skins, high sugar levels and low acidity and produce very fruity, rich, sweet-tasting wine with strawberry and raspberry characters and notes of white pepper and liquorice which evolve into toffee and leather with age. Grenache needs a hot climate to ripen and is often blended with other grape varieties. The wine produced is paler than most reds.
Many southern Rhône wines include several grape varieties as well as Grenache; the hotter and drier conditions here are ideal. The most famous appellation is Châteauneuf-du-Pape and its wines are typically full bodied, with medium tannins, low acidity and a character that includes strawberry, pepper, liquorice and leather notes. Increasing numbers of premium Grenache based wines are being made in Minervois.
It is easy to make fruity rosé from Grenache, which tends to be strawberry flavoured. Grenache is used widely for rosé in southern France.
Appealing deep aromas. A fruity nose of raspberry and redcurrant together with fine oaky hints from its six months ageing in oak barrels. Well rounded and balanced. On the palate, it is beautifully fresh and lively, with a slight acidity, and palatable tannins from the American oak round it out. Hints of liquorice in the finish.
Round and well balanced, this Grand Cru has a very interesting copper colour with hints of tobacco. The smell is rich and delicately spicy with aromas of crystallized fruits and honey in the mouth.
The combinations are many, you can drink chilled as an aperitif or with meat dishes cooked with red berries. It is also ideal with cheeses.
Very freshly aromas of blackcurrant, fresh cherry, married with rare spices and tobacco. Fat mouth with amplitude, large body, deepness with fine tannins and long finish. Very well balanced and elegant.
This deeply coloured barrel aged Languedoc blend is perfumed with
dark cherries, black pepper and vanilla spice. Hints of wild herbs and
minerals add to a rich palate of dense dark fruits and subtle oak. It is
medium bodied yet well structured with a good backbone of fine
tannins and restrained acidity providing an excellent, long finish.
Made from Grenache, Carignan and Syrah, this lush,
oak-aged red offers intense forest fruits with notes of black pepper
and spice. Serve with rare roast beef, lamb, a game casserole or duck.
A magnificent wine of pleasure, the aromatic harmony of
Grenache and Cinsault offers some notes of peach and
candied orange. The mouth is fresh and round.
Bright deep crimson shot through with mauve. Animally, ripe fruit, caramel. Soft attack, good structure, aftertaste of liquorices, notes of toast at the end.
This white wine is very fruity, ample, fresh and rich.
It will be best enjoyed at 8°C and will be the ideal companion of fish,
sea-food, poultry and white meats.
Deep ruby red in colour with aromas of black currant, black berry,
with some violet hints. Black berries and blackcurrant flavours
are persistent as well as liquorice
Deep, dark red in colour. Fresh fruit aromas with red and black berries.
The palate is full, powerful and racy with rounded and smooth tannins.
A full bodied, rich and intensely aromatic wine. Full with a soft finish and
plenty of elegance and finesse due to the well balanced tannins and fruit.
Goes well with cold meats, meat, game bird and cheese.
Red wine with cherry color. A generous fruity that expresses itself from the attack on a suave and exuberant mouth and seduces you with its aromas of red fruits and its freshness. Long finish on the cherry core for this Cru franc and straight texture by smooth, almost melted tannins.
Intense cherry red colour with ruby hues. Very expressive, intense fruity
flavours of blackberries and cherries. Balanced aromas of toasted wood
and vanilla in harmony with each other. This wine is wide and creamy with
ripe tannins that give a sensation of body and structure but are perfectly
combined, providing a sense of volume. Aromas of vanilla and forest fruits
in the aftertaste.
The mouth is savoury with a herb acid edge to the strawberry fruit. The nose is soft and full of red
fruit aromas. A lovely rosé colour with fine bubbles and good balance. Perfect for cocktail time or sweet
fruit or dessert.
ABV 12.0%
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