Grenache Noir

Millésime 2020 - Decanter (NE) "100% Grenache grown on sandy decomposed gneiss soils - is perfumed, with fresh crushed raspberries and fine, soft, silky tannins. 2020 was a difficult year - unusually they had mildew, so Chansault picked early to avoid the rains, and it's paid off: low extraction and concrete tanks have given great finesse."

Millésime 2020 - 16.5 - Jancis Robinson (TC) "Pale and smelling of pressed red petals, pink peppercorns, baharat spice and sweet, smoky chipotle. Everything about this wine has a quiet (almost humble) glow of loveliness about it, including the sweet, cinnamon-spiced strawberry fruit, but what I most love is the texture, followed by the freshness – so distinctive that before I looked up the winemaking notes, I jotted down, ‘was this made in eggs or concrete?’. If you’ve ever worked at a potter’s wheel and felt the cool slick of clay curving in your hands, leaned so close to it that you’re almost drinking in the smell, you’ll know what I mean when I describe the texture as fine, fine wet clay. The freshness is so close to that, almost the same. The smell of wet clay is strangely mouth-watering, strangely cooling. (...)"

Millésime 2020 - Sud de France Languedoc Roussillon Top 100