I’d say Vacqueyras is my favourite of the named Rhône villages. I find it is usually quite elegant, compared to many of the others, which are to me more coarse. So, Vacqueyras is always welcome. I’ve had this wine before, but not this vintage. Nor do I think I’ve had it since Covid. So it’s […]
Category: France
Sous Le Bouchon, Artisans Partisans, 2022, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Can’t say I remember how I picked this wine to sample, even though I ordered it only a week or so ago. I was presumably just browsing the Cambridge Wine Merchants website, and came across it. Not the most exciting backstory, but there you go. It is a low-intervention wine, which piqued my interest. Plus, […]
Carte Postale, 2022, Cité de Carcassonne IGP, Languedoc, France.
A bit of a change-up. This one’s from the Co-op. Mainly because I needed a few things, and was too lazy to go to a wine shop for this week’s wine. I wasn’t quite in the mood to open one of the nicer bottles, since I’m not sure I’d enjoy it fully. Besides, you can […]
Domaine des Lampyres Mal de Cap Rouge, 2022, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Lampyres does interesting stuff. They’re low intervention, etc., etc. So I’m slowly working my way through what I can get my hands on of their range. This one is made from Pineau d’Aunis, also known as Chenin Noir. I think this is a first encounter for me with this grape. For this review, I had […]
Domaine Grammiller Gramillette Pet Nat. 2022 Southern Rhone, France
This was not planned, but I see that the last wine I reviewed here was also a Pet Nat. That just happened. But that should be it on Pet Nats for the foreseeable future. In the glass Before the glass, there’s the bottle. There’s a lot of sediment, and it’s cloudy. But given it is unfiltered, […]