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Château de Montfaucon, Lirac Rouge 'Baron Louis', 2019

£35.00

AOC Lirac

Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, Cinsault, Mourvèdre

15%

This wine is named for the de Pin family ancestor who restored the château to its former, imposing glory. The grapes come from the best plots in Lirac across three different soils and vines reaching the venerable old age of 100.

80% of the wine is aged for 12 months in old French oak barrels before a further year in concrete. The wine is left in bottle for 2 years before release.

Serious, dark morello cherry, dried herbs and iron-rich depth.

AOC Lirac

Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, Cinsault, Mourvèdre

15%

This wine is named for the de Pin family ancestor who restored the château to its former, imposing glory. The grapes come from the best plots in Lirac across three different soils and vines reaching the venerable old age of 100.

80% of the wine is aged for 12 months in old French oak barrels before a further year in concrete. The wine is left in bottle for 2 years before release.

Serious, dark morello cherry, dried herbs and iron-rich depth.

We could go on about how Montfaucon was established in the 11th century; an imposing castle that looks out over Châteauneuf-du-Pape from the other side of the Rhône. However what we really want to tell you about is their Rosé; Tavel and Lirac Rosés in the deeper coloured, textured styles that so many of us would like to see more of and had us convinced we needed to work with Léon and Rudolphe immediately.

Rudolphe took over the running of the estate in 1995; his great great uncle Baron Louis acquired it back in 1880, although vines have been grown here since Roman times. Rudolphe knows his way around the Rhône varieties, having trained at Vieux Télégraphe in Châteauneuf-du-Pape just across the river, and at Henschke in Australia.

The family have sizeable holdings across multiple AOCs, soils and aspects, including a parcel of 150-year-old Clairette.