I don’t think I’ve had a wine I didn’t like from Domaine des Lampyres yet. So you’ll see me working my way through their wines on the blog. And this one is a skin-contact (aka orange) wine. So I’m doubly looking forward to it. In the glass It looks like an honest-to-goodness orange wine. […]
Category: Languedoc-Roussillon
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 […]