Red Blend, Rhone Valley

Domaine des FAVARDS

25% each of Grenache, Syrah, Carignan & Cinsault in Plan de Dieu Appellation. Plan de Dieu is a 'Cotes du Rhone Villages' appellation producing wine since 1300s but dubbed in 2005. This meaty, rustic blend is truly one to represent the hot climate and alluvial soils of this appellation. This particular cuvée was harvested after the main harvest when just a few grapes were left on the vines. The term Givré in French means frozen when talking about grapes and hothead when referring to friends!

Bold wine you can hold on to or decant to get even more out of it.

Crimson colour, deep. Expressive nose, intense black fruit aromas, spice aromas, slight vanilla aromas, subtle chocolate aromas, slight oak aromas. Elegant flavours, rich, unctuous, generous black fruit hints, slight oak hints, silky tannin, round, long length. Viticulture in the process of organic conversion. Use of sorting tables, Total destemming, Use of indigenous yeast, Traditional vinification. Ageing in oak barrel.

The Domaine des Favards is near Avignon in the Vaucluse Region and it has a clay-limestone-gravely soil. Stressed by the Mistral wind and the hot sun, vines produce low yields of high quality fruit.

60 acres of vineyards surround the Barbaud Family's gite, they farm it organically and produce two appellations: Cotes du Rhone & Cotes du Rhone Villages Plan de Dieu.