Wines made from Marselan grapes of Vallee du Paradis
Discover the best wines made with Marselan as a single variety or as a blend of Vallee du Paradis.
Supple, fruity reds with a deep robe and melted tannins, featuring aromas of blackcurrant, blackberry, plum, violet, soft spices and garrigue notes. Good consistency and short-to-medium ageing capacity. Made in blends and as a single variety in Languedoc-Roussillon (IGP Pays d'Oc) and exported massively to China where it has become an emblematic quality signature. Also in Brazil and Argentina. A Cabernet Sauvignon × Grenache cross created in 1961 by Paul Truel in Montpellier.
Languedoc IGP in the heart of the Corbières (12 villages, 150–300 m, garrigue parcels on schists, clay-limestone, basalt and draining sandstone, hot dry Mediterranean climate, Cers wind 200 days/year): Grenache Noir, Syrah and Carignan are the signature red grapes — ripe red and black fruit, spice and garrigue notes, fine tannic structure. Muscat as an aromatic white. ~60% reds, 30% rosés, 10% whites.