Fitou "Retour aux Sources", Mas des Caprices - 2018

Name: Fitou "Retour aux Sources", Mas des Caprices
Brand: Mas de Caprices
SKU: 38745
Price: 18.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 38745 750mL

Fitou is a red wine appellation in the heart of the Languedoc-Roussillon area of southern France. Fitou itself is a small village just miles from the coast. This is a classic red wine full of black fruit aromas, garrigue notes of fern, capers, rosemary and black olives. A complex rich wine that was partially (30%) aged in old wood casks.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2018

Country

France

Region

Languedoc-Roussillon

Sub-Region

Fitou

Producer

Mas de Caprices

Grape Variety

Carignan

Grenache

Mourvèdre

Production Methods

Organic

Biodynamic

Wine made from grapes grown organically using natural composting techniques and special preparations of herbal sprays while following the astronomical calendar.

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Staff Pick Notes

This is a wonderful red blend from Fitou, a small sub-region of the Languedoc-Roussillon. The main grape is Carignan, the two great partners are Grenache and Mourvèdre. Schist soil brings a nice minerality. The wine is matured in oak for ten months. Carignan provides tannin and color. Grenache, as always a great blending partner, gives berry flavors and perfume. Mourvedre adds herbal tones and body. This wine is pure, elegant, and layered. It reflects the traditional style of this small area: black fruit flavors followed by herbal notes, such as rosemary. ..."Retour aux Sources" is a strange name for a wine. The wine producers, Pierre and Mireille Mann, after opening a restaurant in Alsace, felt the need to produce their own wine and decided to "return to source." They moved back to Fitou...thank you for doing that!

- AFR

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...

Mourvèdre

Known as Mataro in California and Monastrell in Spain, Mourvèdre can produce bold, tannic, highly alcoholic red wines. They usually show no shortage of fruit as well, and the best examples keep it all in perfect balance. Rhône-style blends are cropping up all over the world, and one of the classic tried-and-true combinations is "GSM," or Grenache-Syrah-Mourvèdre. The "M" contributes focus and fleshy character to blends - but Mourvèdre also shines on its own as a varietal wine.

Carignan

Grown all over Europe and the Americas, Carignan (a.k.a. Carignane, Carignano, and Cariñena) is seldom seen as a 100% varietal wine. Many appellations of Languedoc-Roussillon must include a certain percentage of Carignan, but it is rarely the dominant grape in these blends. For years, this naturally high-yielding grape suffered from overproduction, but New World winemakers have lately taken up the Carignan cause and produced some distinctive and delicious examples. Now that it is subject to...

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...