£81.50
Pure Cinsault, organic, made as simply as possible - a Languedoc red wine to put in the fridge for half an hour first.
Very ripe black cherry, a curl of chocolate, and violets sitting over the top. Ruby red and bright. The palate is charming and full of energy, with a spiced edge and enough body to stop it feeling slight, and it stays lean all the way through without ever thinning out. Served cool it becomes something else again - crunchier, fresher, properly thirst-quenching. This is the red for a warm day, and the red for the person who tells you they find red too heavy.
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"Cinsault is the grape most of the south uses for rosé but the reds are really worth trying if you like a lighter style. Gently chilled is where it makes the most sense - twenty minutes in the fridge, no more. All that ripe cherry brightens up and you get something genuinely refreshing."
Domaine Monplézy farm around 30 hectares of vines and scrub on clay-limestone with quartz gravel, on a hill near Pézenas inside a Natura 2000 zone. The estate went independent and organic in the same year, 2000, after decades of sending fruit to the co-operative. Anne and Christian run it with their children Benoît, who makes the wine, and Margot. They are members of the LPO, France's bird protection league, whose emblem - and theirs - is the hoopoe.
An organic Languedoc red wine that works chilled, works with almost anything off a grill, and might convert people who think they only drink white. Versatile and great value.
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