The wine region of Côte Vermeille is located in the region of Pays d'Oc of Vin de Pays of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Bruno Duchêne or the Domaine Collectif Anonyme produce mainly wines red, sweet and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Côte Vermeille are Mourvèdre, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Côte Vermeille often reveals types of flavors of cherry, non oak or floral and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, red fruit or spices.
In the mouth of Côte Vermeille is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 5 estates and châteaux in the of Côte Vermeille, producing 6 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Côte Vermeille 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 ...
Château Batailley 2021 was released en primeur this week at around €26.5 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, level with the debut price of the 2020-vintage release. Batailley 2021 was being offered by international merchants at £330 per 12 bottles in bond, said Liv-ex, which described it as ‘one of the best value [Batailley] wines on the market today’. Some analysts and merchants suggested the Pauillac estate had set a relatively positive tone for the Bordeaux en primeur campaign over the next f ...
The project was devised by FIS president Franco Maria Ricci and officially unveiled last week in Rome at the Foundation’s latest annual International Wine Culture Forum. ‘About four months ago I thought we should do some proper experiments to understand what happens to wine and vines in space. Eventually, I decided that this year’s FIS Forum had to be dedicated entirely to this subject,’ Ricci told Decanter. ‘My idea would be to understand if the vine can live and survive in space (and eve ...
