Alo Jais Noir Carignan 2025, Cotes Catalanes

Alo Jais Noir Carignan 2025, Cotes CatalanesBetween Corbieres and the Mediterranean, the small yields from this area and its unique soils and landscape give distinctive wines with personality. This wine is intense and complex with dark, rich fruit, delicate tannins and smooth mouthfeel. Stainless steel was used to maintain the freshness and purity of fruit from the old, bush vine Carignan. Duck confit or shoulder of lamb. As a vegetarian option lentil and bean stew would compliment the wine

before being bottled unfined and unfiltered

made since the 2016 vintage

The Argiano plateau is between 280 and 310 metres above sea level

making no doubt utterly brilliant yet wildly expensive wines (think £3500 a pop)

Finish: long finish - the spice and smoke are very present - behind the fruit and vanilla

Understated and elegant wines from Rioja Alta

All the wines are Côte de Thongue

just like the glorious hillside where he lives surrounded by his vineyards

Falcons still nest in the stone crevices in this area

The tannins are supple but

The 10% skin contact wine is blended in

planted in 1977