The wine region of Saint-Drézéry is located in the region of Languedoc of Languedoc-Roussillon of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Château Puech-Haut or the Château Puech-Haut produce mainly wines red, pink and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Saint-Drézéry are Mourvèdre, Marsanne and Roussanne, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Saint-Drézéry often reveals types of flavors of earth, cranberry or cassis and sometimes also flavors of clove, juniper or mushroom.
In the mouth of Saint-Drézéry is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 6 estates and châteaux in the of Saint-Drézéry, producing 27 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Saint-Drézéry go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or veal.
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
Celebrities from all walks of fame are stepping into the wine world. Sports stars, actors, musicians and TV personalities are all jumping on the wine bandwagon, some owning vineyards and others getting more hands-on in the winemaking itself. This growing trend shows no sign of slowing with recent celebrities to launch their own wines including George Clooney, Gordon Ramsey and Gary Barlow. The Take That star follows in the footsteps of pop singer Kylie Minigue, who launched a successful range of ...
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
