Felicette Grenache Noir IGP Pays d'Oc 2021
Subtle, sassy and food friendly, Felicette Red is a great all-rounder, with juicy red fruit flavours and soft tannins.
Soft & Supple, Medium-Bodied Red
£11.95
Producer | Felicette |
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Country | France |
Region | Languedoc |
Wine Type | Red Wine |
Body / Style | Soft & Supple, Medium-Bodied Red |
Grape Blend | 90% Grenache Noir, 5% Syrah, 5% Merlot |
Bottle Size (ml) | 750 |
% Abv | 14 |
Vintage | 2021 |
Special Features | Vegan |
Extra Info | Easy drinking, versatile |
Food Pairing Guide | Pasta dishes in tomato sauce or orientla |
Terroir | Clay - limestone soils |
Felicette Red is a medium bodied with for all-round drinking, made mostly with Grenache Noir which gives it that bright red colour and a tinge of purple. It has powerful aromas of violets and red fruits. This wine is proper easy drinking, with juicy raspberry and plum flavours, and soft tannins.
It is often said that there are more people who have travelled to space than there are Masters of Wine, and while that may be very true, there are many more MW's than there are cosmic cats. In a uniquely Gallic surge of innovation, '63 witnessed France entering the feline space race via a cat named Félicette. Now immortalised on a wine that pays homage to those that think outside the box, Felicette is for all those who dream to be a little different. An elegant supple, succulent and aromatic Grenache Rouge, and a mineral, crisp, and fresh Grenache Blanc, both IGP Pays d'Oc and indigenous to the region. Both have been carefully crafted to be subtle, sassy and food friendly.Felicette red is a fruity and very well-balanced blend produced in the South-West of France, between Narbonne and Beziers, with a hot and dry mediterranean climate influence. Soils are sandy and silty as well as a chalk/ clay mix on the hillsides.
The grapes are harvested, destemmed and then either hot macerated to extract colour a beautiful dark red colour, and some are cold fermented to get the best possible varietal fruit extraction. The fermentation is then conducted at controlled temperature with gentle pumping overs to extract only the better tannins. The different pressings are then blended before Christmas and are aged in stainless steel tank to preserve fruit and round tannins.
No oak treatment
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