Mylène Bru | 2024 Cartouche 'Vin de Soif' Grenache/Carignan | $41.58 x 12 bottles
Mylène Bru | 2024 Cartouche 'Vin de Soif' Grenache/Carignan | $41.58 x 12 bottles
Cartouche is a juicy and fun wine, with vibrant aromas/flavours of fig, black berries, pomegranate, accented by hints of herbs de Provence (from the garrigues growing amongst Mylene’s vines).
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GRAPE VARIETIES: Grenache 80% Cinsault 20
TERROIR: Four small villafranchian terraces bordered by an oak wood. Very stony clayey-silty-sandy soil with the presence of oysters.
CLIMATE: Mediterranean, hot and dry. The exposure is full North. Favourable exposure to frost despite the top of the slope.
VINIFICATION: Hand harvested in 12 kg boxes. Combination of several different vinifications: For Grenache: 1/3 direct press; 1/3 destemmed; 1/3 short carbonic maceration. For the Cinsault destemming and low temperature alcoholic fermentation. The diversity of the grapes, their original quality coupled with the different vinifications gives a wine whose unique taste makes it popular.
AGEING: Aged 4/5 months in stainless steel vats then the small vats are assembled together during the winter. Bottled in March of the following year.
GASTRONOMY: Tielle de Sète; BBQs with friends; Spring and summer salads; Vegetable anitpasti; Cheese and deli platters; Phô, Bo Bun & Ramen
SERVICE: 13 - 14 °C
POTENTIAL: We don't have enough to check! It is very quickly drunk! Between 1 and 2 years for its freshness.
CERTIFICATION: AB Organic Agriculture
ALCOOL: 12,5 %VOL.
FILTRATION: Unfiltered
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