Élevé Carignan, Vieilles Vignes
we revisit this wonderful French red in time for Bastille Day
It's Bastille Day on 14th July so to commemorate, we're drinking this very unusual, nay revolutionary, wine.
Carignan is the commonest red wine grape that most drinkers have never heard of! Because it is so hard to ripen, it takes considerable skill to produce an unblended Carignan wine that tastes as good as this.
The winemakers have used old vines planted on the driest, sunniest sites, and a whole slew of techniques like green harvesting to limit yields, so that the vines can concentrate their resources on ripening fewer grapes.
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