Côtes du Roussillon Clos des Fées Les Sorcières Hervé Bizeul 2016
Côtes du Roussillon AOC
13.5%
3L
Intensity
What makes this wine special?
A delicious, easy-drinking wine, thanks to its explosive bouquet of fruits, its silky texture and its well-balanced concentration.
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Côtes du Roussillon Clos des Fées Les Sorcières Hervé Bizeul 2016
The wine
Les Sorcières is a wonderfully voluptuous, easy-to-drink wine, made from a selection of old vines (80 year-old Grenache and Carignan) and blended with young Syrah and Mourvèdre. The soil is mainly clay-limestone with a few plots of black schist. Altitudes of between 200 and 350 metres. Hervé Bizeul's objective with this wine is to obtain maximum fruit while preserving freshness with slow, medium extraction. The wine is aged in concrete and stainless steel vats.
Before settling down amid the vines, walls and soil of the Clos des Fées, Hervé Bizeul's peregrinations had been many, flitting around the wine business and the world in general. As a sommelier, as a journalist… but most of all, as a son of this hard ground, with a real pride in Roussillon. It was one day in the late 1990s, looking out onto this desert of scrubland, with its dry stone walls and vines planted in pick-hacked holes amid the green oaks with their twisted branches, that he decided to take his passion for wine to its logical extreme by becoming a wine grower himself. Thanks to his hard work in the vines – but also through his formidable enthusiasm for selling and promoting his wine with a talent for forging links that is somewhat uncommon among growers, who enjoy the solitary company of their vines and can be uneasy with commercial relationships – Bizeul would be quick to find success. And this success would enable him to live comfortably and develop his domain by expanding it through the purchase of parcels of land (both already planted and awaiting plantation), hiring workers, buying increasingly advanced equipment and continuing to tour the wine shows of France and the world, proudly flying the flag of his own wines as well as all the others in his region. But if you think Hervé Bizeul has retired his pen, then think again: today, he is among the most prolific contributors to be found in the blogosphere.
Detailed characteristics
- Quantity:
- 4 bottles
- Level:
- 4 Normal
- Observations:
- 4 Highly marked labels, 4 Plastic-covered labels
- Origin:
- private individual
- Type of cellar:
- underground, natural cellar
- Recoverable VAT:
- no
- Wooden case:
- no
- Local excise duty seal:
- yes
- Alcohol percentage:
- 13.5 %
- Region:
- Roussillon
- Appellation:
- Côtes du Roussillon
- Owner:
- Hervé Bizeul
- Vintage:
- 2016
- Colour:
- red
- Service temperature:
- 16°
- Viticulture:
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- Intensity:
- leaves you wanting more
- Leading aroma:
- black fruit
- Tasting occasion:
- aperitif
- Grape variety:
- 50% Syrah, 30% Grenache, 20% Carignan
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