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Domaine Fontanel, Maury Grenat, 2020
From one plot of 75 year old vines of Grenache Noir. This style of Vin Doux Naturel (literally naturally sweet wine) is well-known for matching chocolate, but it’s equally good with cheese, especially blue cheese, in a manner akin to a very... Read More
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ColourRed
StyleFortified
RegionRoussillon
GrowerDomaine Fontanel
Grape VarietyGrenache
Vintage2020
ABV17%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeFON620
Languedoc-Roussillon
There’s something very complete about our annual offer of wines from the Languedoc and Roussillon: with whites, rosés and reds, and wonderful fortified wines, the Vins Doux Naturels which are such a speciality of the region, there should be something for all tastes. Secondly, there are wines for every budget; at every level we believe these wines continue to offer terrific...
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Domaine Fontanel
Tautavel, France
Things have changed at Domaine Fontanel, but with a sense of continuity. Elodie and Matthieu Collet bought the domaine from Pierre and Marie-Claude Fontaneil in 2017 and have already made a name for themselves, being elected no less than Vignerons de l'Année (Roussillon) du Guide Hachette 2019.
After both graduating as agricultural...
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Grenache / Garnacha
Grenache / Garnacha
Grenache grows well in hot, dry regions, though it can develop very high (15 degrees+) alcohol.
As such it is grown principally in Southern France and Spain (as Garnacha). It is usually blended with other varieties in the Southern Rhône and Languedoc (Syrah, Mourvedre, Carignan, Cinsaut and others).
Its flavour usually encompasses the...
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Domaine Fontanel, Maury Grenat, 2020
From one plot of 75 year old vines of Grenache Noir. This style of Vin Doux Naturel (literally naturally sweet wine) is well-known for matching chocolate, but it’s equally good with cheese, especially blue cheese, in a manner akin to a very fruity and forward port. Now-2028
Vins Doux Naturels are made by stopping the fermentation of late picked, very ripe grapes, part way through its course, by the addition of alcohol (a process known as mutage); thereby preventing the yeasts from working, and leaving a fortified wine with plentiful natural, unfermented grape sugar and between 15 and 17 degrees of alcohol. It’s an ancient art which probably came over the Pyrenees from Moorish Spain with the medieval spread of distillation – and examples of VDNs are now found across the south of France, as far as Beaumes de Venise and Rasteau. These are wonderful, distinctive fortified wines - port-like but with lower alcohol levels and without the tannins.
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