Domaine du Grand Tinel, Châteauneuf-du-Pape red 2022 Magnum Montsant

Domaine du Grand Tinel, Châteauneuf-du-Pape red 2022 Magnum MontsantGrenache 80%, Syrah 20%. 75 years old vines on sand, clay soil with rolled pebbles. Annual production is 60,000 bottles. Harvest is entirely manual, followed by systematic sorting in the vineyard and at the cellar. The different grape varieties are vinified separately and the harvest is de stemmed and crushed in its entirety. Fermentation is done in thermo regulated tanks with pumping over everyday for 4 to 5 weeks. Free run juice and press wines are

on the hillsides which overlook the Loire

notes of plum pudding

Stephan von Neipperg

the wine carries us all the way through a good meal

43 hectares altogether

rose-inflected finish

The wines are made to be consumed during meals

René Barbier showed Christopher and his wife Charlotte an abandoned vineyard just north of Gratallops called “Figueres” in honor of the 2 magnificent fig trees on the property

yellow plums

on soils that are nevertheless poor enough to favor measured

I have moved here my studio and I now live here

perched at 500 meters in altitude