IGP Côtes Catalanes Clos des Fées Vieilles vignes Hervé Bizeul 2018
14.5%
0.75L
Intensity
A Grenache cuvée crafted from 100-year-old vines. This typically Mediterranean wine is rich, full flavoured, powerful and velvety. Ideal with fish.
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IGP Côtes Catalanes Clos des Fées Vieilles vignes Hervé Bizeul 2018
The wine
IGP Côtes Catalanes Veilles Vignes is produced from the property's oldest vines (more than 100 years old) and matured on the lees for eight months in stainless steel vats. This is a superb Roussillon white! It has a pale gold colour and a nose of white-fleshed fruit (especially peach) and white flower (honeysuckle). The palate is velvety and sappy with a nice creamy texture and pleasing dense quality.
About the Producer Clos des Fées
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: 1 bottle
Level: 1 NormalObservation: 1 NormalOrigin: private individual
Type of cellar: underground, natural cellar
Recoverable VAT: no
Original wooden case / Original case: no
French customs seal: yes
Alcohol percentage: 14.5 %
Region: Roussillon
Appellation: IGP Côtes Catalanes
Owner: Hervé Bizeul
Vintage: 2018
Colour: white
Service temperature: 11°
Size (in ha): 30 hectares
Intensity: rich
Leading aroma: yellow fruit
Tasting occasion: food-friendly wine