Les Bastides

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  • Languedoc
  • Red
  • Unit
  • Boire/Garder
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Les Bastides

This wine is made for ageing. It is a sumptuous wine that can be found in the finest restaurants, with a bouquet of garrigue scrub and black fruit. On the palate it is sappy, powerful and tense on the finish, making it delectable. A thoroughbred wine!

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Wine characteristics

  • Vintage : Les Bastides
  • Year : 2012
  • Appellation : Faugères AOP
  • Colour : Red
  • Grape types : 60 % Syrah, 30 % Grenache, 10 % Mourvèdre
  • Soil : grey shale
  • Harvest : manual
  • Type of viticulture : sustainable
  • Alcohol content : 14%
  • Contenance : 75cl

Tasting - Cellaring

  • Appearance : dark garnet robe
  • Nose : garrigue scrub, black fruit, coffee
  • Mouth : sappy, powerful and fresh
  • Serving temperature : 16-18 °C
  • Cellaring : 10 to 15 years
  • Drink from : 2017
  • Winemaking process : traditional, long vatting
  • Maturation : 18 months in barrels, part of which are new barrels

Food-matching

  • Food-matching : spicy dishes, jugged deer

Domain :

This 12-acre vineyard was the first to introduce Syrah into the region. Planted on shale at an altitude of 340 metres above sea level, it gives the best possible aromatic expression possible. A fifth-generation winemaker, Jean-Michel ALQUIER has taken the estate to the peak of the appellation by exploiting this feature to the benefit of uncompromising qualitative research. 

Appellation :

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This is the wine-growing area that has made the greatest progress in terms of quality over the past 30 to 40 years, morphing from coarse reds into a multitude of quality wines with very distinctive characteristics. For some time now, the whites have also kept pace with the reds.

There are 245,000 hectares of vineyards, producing 1,245,000 hl of wine, mainly reds.

The region is situated between the Massif Central, the Corbières and the Mediterranean, covering a wide range of ‘terroirs’ and appellations. There’s shale, sandstone, pebbles, limestone and alluvial deposits.

The climate is very much mediterranean, with hot summers and irregular and poorly distributed rainfall.

The grape types currently planted, apart from carignan, often date from after the Second World War, in line with the subsoil. This makes for complex, exciting wines.

Reflecting this dynamism, many of the vignerons produce wines that are non-AOC (vins de pays, table wines, etc.) as they keep on searching for quality and originality.

The Languedoc has 11 AOCs, the main ones of which are Coteaux du Languedoc, Saint-Chinian, Faugères, Minervois, Minervois-la-Livinière, Fitou, Corbières, Limoux and so on.

Recent vintages

  • 2011: good year for whites, which are well-balanced and fresh. The reds are more even.
  • 2012: the reds are mature and fresh, with lower alcohol content. The whites are fresh and fragrant.
  • 2013: the finest vintage since 1998. The reds display freshness, quality tannins and fragrant finesse. The whites blend good balance with maturity and acidity.
  • 2014: fresh, tender reds to be drunk young. Tonic, aromatic and fresh whites.

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