Wines made from Mourvèdre grapes of Vallee du Paradis
Discover the best wines made with Mourvèdre as a single variety or as a blend of Vallee du Paradis.
Powerful, deep reds with firm tannins and dense texture, showing aromas of blackberry, leather, garrigue, black pepper, liquorice and animal notes (game, forest floor) with age. Star of Bandol AOC as a single variety and pillar of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Costières blends. Also in GSM in Languedoc and Australia. A late-ripening variety of Spanish origin (Mataró/Monastrell).
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.