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2024 Corbières Rosé “Gris de Gris”
Domaine de Fontsainte
For nearly fifty years, Domaine de Fontsainte’s Gris de Gris and Domaine Tempier’s Bandol have represented a sort of yin and yang of our southern French rosés. If Bandol offers a darker, stonier, and more robust wine, Fontsainte’s Gris de Gris delivers a crisper and more featherweight expression of the South. Made mostly from Grenache Gris—a lighter-hued mutation of the more common Grenache Noir grape—this “vin gris” is so refreshing and versatile that it’s probably the most popular bottle among KLWM staff each summer—possibly even all year. Need a bottle that’s salad-friendly for your next picnic? Check. Or a glass to enjoy while you’re tending the grill? Look no further. Or—perhaps most importantly—need a wine for a mixed company with a variety of preferences for white, rosé, and even red? Fontsainte’s Gris de Gris has the frame and acidity for white-wine lovers while it delivers the succulence, spice, and faint red-berry notes for your friends who prefer reds. You’ll realize as soon as you taste it why this has been one of our essential cuvées for nearly five decades.
—Tom Wolf
Wine Type: | Rosé |
Vintage: | 2024 |
Bottle Size: | 750mL |
Blend: | 90% Grenache Gris, 5% Carignan, 5% Mourvèdre |
Appellation: | Corbières |
Country: | France |
Region: | Languedoc-Roussillon |
Producer: | Domaine de Fontsainte |
Winemaker: | Bruno Laboucarié |
Vineyard: | 46.2 ha |
Soil: | Silica, clay, limestone (gravelly with large galets or rounded stones) |
Aging: | 4-6 months in stainless steel tanks |
Farming: | Lutte Raisonnée |
Alcohol: | 12% |
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About The Producer
Domaine de Fontsainte
About The Region
Languedoc-Roussillon
Ask wine drinkers around the world, and the word “Languedoc” is sure to elicit mixed reactions. On the one hand, the region is still strongly tied to its past as a producer of cheap, insipid bulk wine in the eyes of many consumers. On the other hand, it is the source of countless great values providing affordable everyday pleasure, with an increasing number of higher-end wines capable of rivaling the best from other parts of France.
While there’s no denying the Languedoc’s checkered history, the last two decades have seen a noticeable shift to fine wine, with an emphasis on terroir. Ambitious growers have sought out vineyard sites with poor, well draining soils in hilly zones, curbed back on irrigation and the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and looked to balance traditional production methods with technological advancements to craft wines with elegance, balance, and a clear sense of place. Today, the overall quality and variety of wines being made in the Languedoc is as high as ever.
Shaped like a crescent hugging the Mediterranean coast, the region boasts an enormous variety of soil types and microclimates depending on elevation, exposition, and relative distance from the coastline and the cooler foothills farther inland. While the warm Mediterranean climate is conducive to the production of reds, there are world-class whites and rosés to be found as well, along with stunning dessert wines revered by connoisseurs for centuries.
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Kermit once said...
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