Wines

Dry Red Wines

La Grange de Benaïs-Fauran
AOC Fitou
Red  2001

This cuvee was made from :
- 40 % Carignan which gives it a full-bodied structure and a beautiful violet color.
- 30 % Grenache Noir which provides high alcohol content, roundness, unctuousness and spicy flavors.
- 30 % Mourvedre for delicacy, complex & fruity scents, and elegant tannins.

VINIFICATION :
Due to the vineyard's configuration stretching over sloping hills and terraces the grapes can only be picked by hand.
This is why old fashioned vinification methods are used, vinifying the whole grape using carbonic maceration for Carignan and Syrah, which allows the wine obtained to fully express the richness of the soil.

TASTING :
It has a beautiful deep purple color with flashes of black, an intense bouquet of spices, red fruit and hot stone, complimented by an ample, elegant, full-bodied and round palate. Everything goes well together and will allow this already pleasing wine to reach full maturity in two or three years. The finish is dense, promising and fruity.
It should be served between 14°C and 16°C and would be ideal with savory and refined dishes :
- grilled sirloin served with maitre de chai   sauce (house sauce)
- leg of mutton stuffed with garlic and   seasoned with thyme and olive oil.
- leg of duck cooked with onions and   black olives.
- duck magret grilled over a wood fire   served with cepes, ...

Domaine de Bénaïs-Bousquet
AOC Fitou
2001
Matured in Oak barrels

GRAPE VARIETIES :
Grenache noir 35%
Carignan 30 %
Mourvèdre 35%

VINIFICATION :
The Carignan is vinified by using carbonic maceration while the Grenache and Syrah are vinified using traditional methods.

TASTING :
A dark intense ruby red color characterizes this wine with its powerful flavors of toasted vanilla and spices. A beautiful round and peppery attack announces a rich and generous body with full-bodied yet covered tannins. The warm finish has a pleasant length. This is a wine that could mature for another 2 or 3 years. It should be served between 14/15°C. It will go particularly well with grilled or roasted red meat : grilled lamb chops in garlic butter sauce, roast shoulder or leg of mutton, grilled beef steak with bearnaise sauce, steak with shallots, tournedos with mushrooms and grilled duck magret.

Naturally Sweet Wines

La Combe Belline
AOC Rivesaltes Ambré
1998

GRAPE VARIETIES :
80% Grenache
20% Maccabeu

A beautiful amber color close to topaz. It is surprises us with scents of orange peel, plums and coffee beans which come out again strongly on the palate. This, together with its smoothness, makes it an ideal dessert wine that should be served chilled to 10/12 °C with fruit pies, cakes, almond cakes, crepes, waffles or cookies.

VINIFICATION :
The wine is primarily made from Grenache Gris, Grenache Blanc and Maccabeu picked at full maturity (with an alcohol potential of 17 to 18°). The stalks are removed from the grapes and they are then poured into a vat for alcoholic fermentation. It is during this fermentation period that vinic alcohol is added (aka mutation on seeds) which immediately stops fermentation and leaves the grape's natural sugar in the wine. It will then be left as is to macerate with the grape skin crust so as to fully extract the flavors from the grape skin. This also controls oxidation which is what gives it its amber color and matures the scents of the grapes towards the scents of wine.

 

La Combe Belline
AOC Muscat de Rivesaltes
2002

GRAPE VARIETIES :
Small-grained Muscat
Muscat from Alexandria

TASTING :
Doted with a beautiful shiny gold color it has exotic scents of honey and candied grapes along with menthol. It is well-balanced on the palate with persistent and strong flavors and has a harmonious structure with an elegant finish.
It should be served chilled to 6/8°C, as a cocktail or with desserts. It will go ideally with "ile flottante" (meringue floating in cream), caramel custard, fruit salad, small cakes and macaroons as well as apricots and melon in Muscat wine and pine nut pie.

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