"Fou du roi", Le Temps des Cerises
Staff Pick
Organic

"Fou du roi", Le Temps des Cerises - 2019

750 mL
Item # 21336

This excellent red wine hails from the St. Chinian area of the northern Languedoc.The wine is loaded with super delightful dark fruits, muskiness and a savage, raw character that gives tremendous character.

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Wine made from organically or biodynamically grown grapes with minimal intervention avoiding the use of chemicals, additives and technology.


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Staff Pick Notes

"Fou du roi" means "the jester" but this wine is no joke. Moving to the Languedoc from East Germany in the late 1990's, Axel Prufer works with biodynamic vineyards planted high in the Black Mountains of L'Hérault. His move centered around wanting to play a part in the natural wine movement and create minimal-sulphur wines. This wine is a carbonic macerated blend of equal parts Grenache, Cinsault, and Carignan. There is a vibrant and punchy acidity and a bouquet of delicious dark fruit flavors: pomegranate, black raspberry, dark cherry. As well as an underlying gamey musk and a long, clean finish.

- JOS

Glossary

Grenache

The Grenache grape (a.k.a. Grenache Noir) produces relatively pale, fruity red wines that often stop just short of sweetness. Grenache is familiar to most wine drinkers as an ingredient in the blends of the Rhône and Languedoc-Roussillon, where it can add charm to varieties that are a little rougher around the edges. The distinguished Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas appellations are both characterized by significant percentages of Grenache, while in Tavel and Lirac the grape is used to make...

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Syrah

We'd like to clear this up once and for all: the Shiraz grape is genetically identical to Syrah. Australian winemakers put "Shiraz" on the map (and, many would argue, vice versa), and the term is now used throughout much of the New World. Let it never be said, however, that Shiraz and Syrah are the same thing: the region in which the grape is grown determines much about the flavor of the wine it will produce. Typically, New World Shiraz yields bigger, fruitier wines than the the peppery Syrahs...

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