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• Certified organic.
• 100% Marsanne.
• 60+ year old vines.
• 2 terraced parcels on opposite sides of the...
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A blend of young Calvados, distilled with extreme care in a copper column still. Aged more than 2 years in oak casks....
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A blend of young Calvados, distilled with extreme care in a copper column still. Aged more than 3 years in oak casks....
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Calvados made from a majority of pears can have a wild, volatile edge, that I find here in this six-year-old bottling...
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This three-year-old bottling from AOC Domfrontais is made from 70% pears and hearkens back to old-school Calvados in...
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Another beautiful white from the team, the 100% Marsanne 2021 Crozes Hermitage Les Meysonniers Blanc offers up lots...
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Very rich, but racy and well-focused, with a great minerally underpinning to the fresh butter, chamomile, yellow...
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As in 2016, my favorite of the white parcel selections this year is the 2017 Ermitage l'Ermite Blanc (231 cases...
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Always a classic Hermitage Blanc, the 2019 Hermitage Chante-Alouette Blanc is all Marsanne that comes mostly from...
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Brilliant all the way, the 2020 Hermitage Chante-Alouette Blanc is a white readers should snatch up. All Marsanne...
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Quite possibly the finest white in the appellation, the 2020 Saint Joseph Les Granits Blanc is all Marsanne from what...
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It is distinguished by intense aromas of fresh apples. Its color is clear with pale yellow undertones. It is ideal to...
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This Hors d'Age release comes from a careful blend of barrels from three vintages. It shows deep green apple, vanilla...
Calvados Grenache Marsanne Mencia
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.