The wine region of Côtes du Roussillon Villages 'Latour de France' is located in the region of Côtes du Roussillon Villages of Languedoc-Roussillon of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine M. Chapoutier or the Domaine Les Vignerons de Trémoine produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Côtes du Roussillon Villages 'Latour de France' are Vermentino et Mourvèdre, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety.
On the nose of Côtes du Roussillon Villages 'Latour de France' often reveals types of flavors of cream, savory or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of oak, vegetal or microbio. In the mouth of Côtes du Roussillon Villages 'Latour de France' is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 7 estates and châteaux in the of Côtes du Roussillon Villages 'Latour de France', producing 8 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Côtes du Roussillon Villages 'Latour de France' go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal.
The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...
Ardbeg single malt whisky, based on the southern shores of Scotland’s island of Islay, has recently unveiled Fon Fhòid: the latest in a number of highly unusual experiments. Back in 2014, the distillery team lead by whisky creator, Dr Bill Lumsden and former distillery manager, Mickey Heads (now retired) took the highly unusual approach of burying two already matured casks of Ardbeg underneath the peat bogs themselves, (burning peat smoke is normally used to dry the malted barley during producti ...
Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...
