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red wine from the Languedoc

Langwedockie experiments on variety Carignan

1. Château Vieux Parc, La Sélection 2007, an appeal: Corbières AC, strain: 40% Syrah, Carignan 40%, 10% mourvedre, Grenache 10%, Region: Languedoc, Country: France.
   Carignan grapes in the process of vinification were subjected to a maceration of coal (carbonic maceration). This means that at the initial stage of wine production, the sugar found in fruit was converted into alcohol, not the action of yeast, and by enzymes present in the same clusters. This was achieved through neither crushed fruit and niedodawanie yeast to the fermenter. Only after that carried out the fermentation, fruit and wine were crushed, and strictly speaking, grape, underwent classical fermentation with yeast. The use of maceration of coal, on the one hand to preserve the wine a more fruity character and a more intense color, on the other hand, it effectively "odtaninowuje. This is most readily is used in Beaujolais the Gamay variety reigning there. Winemakers in Languedoc's innovative more frequently undergo maceration known for its high acidity and taninowości variety Carignan, wanting it in this way to make more fruit and less acute;
2. Colour: deep blue, the glass is really black. Wine flowed down the sides creating a visible thick streaks. The perpetrator of such a view was probably high, over 14% alcohol;

3. Nose: At first a little dense. I felt that it is fruit, but fruit as the incumbent in a bottle, that you had to give them some time to get it wygramoliły. The I have already gone, then all at once, and any such heavily processed. The wine smelled of jams - from blackberries, plums and cherries;
4. Taste: fruity, sweet-sour, with no tannins and a bit cowboy alcohol. It seemed to me that the wine is nieprzefermentowany sugar, although it could just be an illusion, taking into account explicitly konfiturowy his character. All tangible fruits (ripe blackberries, plums, cherries, strawberries and even a little) the impression crushed to a pulp and solid posłodzonych;
5. Price: EUR 16.95. It seems that this time poeksperymentowano in the "French New World, "as it is called South of France. Wine with every glass of taking on even sweeter character, so finally, after about three, do a little queasy. But if someone is able to eat ten glazed donuts at a time, Château Vieux Parc, La Sélection 2007 will be just for him.

Finally, I will add a completely seriously ik prefers justice, that the wine is really made undoubtedly ingenious, and certainly worth a try. And those who, after what I wrote, I do not really have faith in this matter, I hasten to inform you that in 2009 Château Vieux Parc, La Sélection 2007 was awarded a gold medal from Decanter magazine - World Wine Awards.