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The Clos d’Agon founders are fans of Cabernet Franc: winemaker Miguel Coronado calls it 'the Pinot of the Mediterranean; slender, long and spicy with crisp fruit'. This wine brings 50% Cabernet Franc together with 29% Syrah - 'fruity, sexy and expressive,' according to Coronado - 11% Petit Verdot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. After five days’ cold soak and stainless steel fermentation, it does malolactic in barrel followed by 17 months’ ageing, in 40% new oak. Dark black-red in colour, the wine has raspberry, violet and trimmed privet scents. On the palate it is pure, lively, smooth and intense, with flavours of black raspberry, grilled nuts, a little smoke and crushed holly leaf. There is great purity and intensity here. A chance to look at the 2001 suggested that the wine can age to an attractively resinous maturity, with mellow, spicy fruits – though there was no Cabernet Franc back then, and the majority (60%) of the blend was Cabernet Sauvignon.

Cabernet Franc

Petit Verdot

Syrah / Shiraz

Clos d'Agon, Tinto, Catalonia, Spain, 2014

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The Clos d’Agon founders are fans of Cabernet Franc: winemaker Miguel Coronado calls it 'the Pinot of the Mediterranean; slender

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Andrew Jefford

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Clos d'Agon, Tinto, Catalonia, Spain, 2014

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