Roques ‘N’ Roll Carignan Bio

Roques ‘N’ Roll Carignan Bio from Languedoc France. Beautiful deep red color. The nose is dominated by aromas of small red fruit (strawberries, blackcurrants and cherries). The taste has a Mediterranean spiciness in combination with recurring small red fruit and silky tannins. The aftertaste is playful and has a pleasant length.Entrecôte, Delicious with moussaka, baked lamb shoulder.

Carignan, a blue grape that is widely planted in the South of France, North Africa and California. The grape produces fairly powerful wines that are fruity in their early years. Nowhere does this grape produce more beautiful wine than in the Roussillon. Carignan comes from Spain and is called cariñena there after the city of the same name where the grape originally comes from. The wines of the carignan are generally dark in colour and coarse in character. They contain relatively much tannin and a high acidity. Thanks to modern methods of vinification such as carbonic maceration the wines become fuller, softer and fruitier.