Les Foulards Rouges VdF Les Vilains Rouge, 2022, 750ml
$35
Description
This wine is made from fruit sources from one single plot of 80 year-old Carignan on the sandy granitic hillside of Montesquieu-des-Abères and 20% of Grenache.
Made using whole-cluster for 2 weeks and the free run and press juice are blended then aged in used barrels until beginning of Spring. The wine is bottled by hand, unfined and unfiltered.
Carignan and Grenache. Vilains has the most opulent nose, full of red and black currant, sloe berries, roasted dark spices, nutmeg and pepper finishing with leather and smoked meat. The palate has the typical acid tension of the Carignan, with its blue fruit vibrancy, as well as its typical reduction, faintly in this release, and its angular tannins - clove, musk and roasted Provençal herbs. It is a quite a fresh and crunchy red.