Roussillon
Poudre d'Escampette - 2022 - Alain Castex
Les Vins du Cabanon
A very expressive nose, redolent of red fruits... Palate: dense yet fresh, with flavours of black cherry.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
From a parcel of Alain’s only remaining vines, one hectare in the commune of Trouillas. A blended cuvée: 40% Mourvèdre, 30% Carignan and 30% Grenache Noir. Century-old vines grown on clay soils, with low yields. Both the farming of the vines and the vinification are natural. Made without sulphur, fermented by semi-carbonic maceration, with a short maturation in old barrels. Wine neither filtered nor fined, zero added sulfites.
Alain Castex
Alain Castex, an iconic figure in the region of Banyuls and Roussillon, produced wines of another era. He refused to use any oenological additives. Producing in small volumes, his wines had always been ultra-confidential, at most 5000 bottles in the biggest years. Such is the fruit of this impassioned winemaker’s labours, this uncompromising and extremely meticulous man. Le Casot des Mailloles...
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