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2025 Languedoc Rosé “Gris de Gris” MAGNUM
Domaine de Fontsainte
After Beaujolais Nouveau, Fontsainte’s Gris de Gris rosé is the first wine of each new vintage to arrive in the shop. Even after so many years, the anticipation is just as high to uncork that first bottle, and the inaugural sip never disappoints. The 2025 edition is as irresistible as ever, bursting with cool citrus and wild strawberry over a delicate tingle of acidity and mouthwatering salty note. Does rosé get any better than this? I lean toward no, but will require several more bottles to reach a proper conclusion.
—Anthony Lynch
| Wine Type: | Rosé |
| Vintage: | 2025 |
| Bottle Size: | 1.5L |
| Blend: | 90% Grenache Gris, 5% Carignan, 5% Mourvèdre |
| Appellation: | Languedoc |
| 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: | Wines rest for one month before bottling to preserve freshness and aromatic intensity |
| Farming: | Lutte Raisonnée |
| Alcohol: | 12% |
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About The Producer
Domaine de Fontsainte
About The Region
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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...
Kermit once said...
Great winemakers, great terroirs, there is never any hurry. And I no longer buy into this idea of “peak” maturity. Great winemakers, great terroirs, their wines offer different pleasures at different ages.
Inspiring Thirst, page 312