View attachment 989586 A Cabernet at the moment. friend operates a portable bottling truck and passes these on once in a while. Not sure if it's special but, tastes good.
^^ The challenge @ France in the narrowing down as the sheer variety of rouge, not to mention the many fine roses (Alsatian Rose is killer stuff) and whites (Riesliing and/or Gewurztraminer Alsace, anyone?) available here. And cheap. Who the hell needs to spend beaucoup -- @ times exorbitant -- amounts of their Euros on the produits du Bordeaux, Bourgogne, or select examples of the Rhone Valley (e.g., Cote Rotie, Hermitage, or Chateauneuf du Pape?)
I feel your pain A month ago returned from a fabulous trip to Bourgogne and Alsace.
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Actually I had it backwards: Bourgogne first and then we headed to Colmar.
And we already were in Provence/Rhone Valley and Louire Valley as well before.
Yeah...they can be quite expensive. In Aloxe-Corton I've seen $3,000 bottles of Grand Cru....Ouch!
But the wine is great!
It is...It was the whole day trip: Aloxe-Corton - Pernand-Vergelesses - Savigny-les-Beaune...what a day!
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Since coming to France I have become entranced by the wines of the Southwest (Sud-Ouest), particularly (in no particular order:
Cahors
Languedoc
Roussillon
Corbières
Minervois
But a(nother) recent "find" has me equally enthralled: Saint-Chinian, which is made in the Occitanie region in the South (Sud) and which is made using 100% Cabernet Franc or, on occasion, 100% Carignan. Both very dark, dense rouge varieties. This also holds for Minervois (mentioned above). The others mentioned above, while indeed 100% rouge (usually Carignan), are lighter in character and lower re: al'cool content.