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St-Chinian

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This ambitious cuvée from the brother and sister team of Luc Simon and Christine Deleuze is a Mourvèdre-dominated blend grown on mixed soils in several different sites, and given 20 months in new barriques. Black fruits, coal and a little box leaf makes for a fresh, green-toned scent in which the oak is not obtrusive. On the palate the wine has that same faintly green-toned, box and holly freshness. The full ripening of Mourvèdre in the Languedoc hills is not assured every year, and these are in general cooler sites than Bandol’s terraces. Ample mid-palate blackcurrant and sloe fruit has plenty of zest and chic poise to it, and there are soft, well-rounded textures without abrupt tannins.

Mourvèdre

Clos Bagatelle, Je Me Souviens, St-Chinian, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 2014

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This ambitious cuvée from the brother and sister team of Luc Simon and Christine Deleuze is a Mourvèdre-dominated blend grown on

Clos Bagatelle, Je Me Souviens, St-Chinian, 2014

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