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This 170ha domain, with 60ha of planted vineyards, produces 15,000 bottles a year of Gres de Montpellier, but larger quantities still of AOP Languedoc, IGP wine and Picpoul de Pinet, as it sits astride the two AOP zones. Owner Boris Pakhunov is one of the Languedoc's new generation of Russian owners, and is a former oenologist who also owns one of Russia's oldest distilleries. This is an old-vine cuvée based principally on Mourvèdre, with the balance from Grenache and Syrah. Deep black-red in colour, it shows classically brambly black fruit aromas with savoury, tobacco-like complexities. That's very much what you find on the palate too, in soft and round-contoured style, making this wine an attractive complement to the more typically Syrah-dominant cuvées of other producers.

Grenache / Garnacha

Mourvèdre

Syrah / Shiraz

Château St Martin de la Garrigue, Grés de Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 2016

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This 170ha domain, with 60ha of planted vineyards, produces 15,000 bottles a year of Gres de Montpellier, but larger quantities 

Château St Martin de la Garrigue, Grés de Montpellier, 2016

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