It's not often that the prestigious Penin Guide, Spain's most highly regarded wine review compendium, gives 88 points to such an inexpensive wine, but Chaval is an extraordinary Bobal, Valencia's perfect summer red. Initial fermentation is long and slow ...
Near the villages of Minerve and La Caunette in Languedoc, situated on a high plateau, lies Chateau Coupe-Roses, an organic estate passionately run by Francoise le Calvez and Pascal Frissant. Their vineyards are at the highest altitudes in Minervois, betw...
"...Hailing from the rugged and windswept hills of Corbières, which teem with garrigue and olive groves, La Demoiselle delivers a glorious taste of the South. Made mostly from the Languedoc’s great red grape, Carignan, from vines planted as far back as 1904, this rouge achieves that rare feat of delivering class, charm, and complexity whether you open it right after release or twenty years later, as a magnificently fresh and silky bottle from the 2001 vintage proved last week..."
-Supplier notes (Kermit Lynch)