Cotes du Rhone Domaine La Florane

Côtes du Rhône Villages Visan. 90% Grenache, 10% Syrah.

An easy wine to love. \"Boovability,\" says vigneron Adrien Fabre, \"a wine you can just drink,\" is what this is all about. \"When blending, I place a bottle of this on my parents' dinner table. If the bottle is not finished in that meal, the blend is not right!\"

Sourced from the estate's lower blocks, fermented naturally in concrete and rested in stainless before bottling, this is a beautifully pure and easy drinking style. A well regarded vintage sees this with a little more concentration and spice than usual, a slightly wild nose giving away to a clean streak of an array of black fruit woven though clove and spice, with pleasantly ripe and grippy fruit tannin. A CdR for Pinot drinkers.

Region Description

Originally from Spain, this grape comes in both red-wine and white-wine varieties and is often associated with France’s southern Rhone Valley. The Grenache grape does well in hot, dry regions, and its strong stalk makes it well suited for windy conditions. It ripens with very high sugar levels and can produce wines with high alcohol content. Grenache wines are sweet, fruity, and very low in tannins. They are usually lacking in color, except in growing areas where yields are low. In Spain Grenache is widely planted in Navarra as well as in many of the hotter areas of the country. In southern France Grenache is widely cultivated in the areas around Languedoc- RoussillonRousellon, Provence, and the southern Rhone. It is also extensively grown in Algeria, Australia, Corsica, Israel, Morocco, Sardinia and California's central valley. Red Grenache wines are usually blended with other varieties: trempranillo in Spain and cinsaut and carignan in France. It’s the primary grape in chateauneuf-du-pape as well as in several rose wines.