Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape - Gérard Bertrand

The powerful Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape from the pen of Gérard Bertrand glides into the glass with dense purple. Swiveling the wine glass, this red wine reveals a high density and fullness, which shows in church windows at the edge of the glass. Poured into a Bordeaux glass, this Old World red wine presents wonderfully expressive aromas of blueberry, plum, blackberry and damson, rounded out by cinnamon, vanilla and gingerbread spice contributed by barrel aging.

The Gérard Bertrand Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape presents itself to the wine lover wonderfully dry. This red wine is never coarse or meager, as one might expect from a wine icon wine segment. On the tongue, this punchy red wine is characterized by an incredibly dense texture. The finale of this youthful red wine from the wine-growing region of the Languedoc, more precisely from La Clape, finally impresses with considerable reverberation. The finish is also accompanied by mineral hints of the soils dominated by limestone and marl.

Vinification of the Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape by Gérard Bertrand

This powerful red wine from France is vinified from Grenache, Mourvèdre and Syrah grapes. In Languedoc, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of limestone and marl. Clearly, Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape is also determined by climate and viticultural style La Clape. This French wine can be described in the best sense of the word as an Old World wine that is exceptionally impressive. At the time of optimal ripeness, the grapes for Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape are harvested exclusively by hand without the help of coarse and less selective machines. After the harvest, the grapes are quickly transferred to the press house. Here they are selected and gently broken up. Then fermentation takes place in small wood at controlled temperatures. After its end, the Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape is aged for another 16 months in oak barriques.

Food recommendation for the Château L'Hospitalet Grand Vin Rouge La Clape by Gérard Bertrand

This French red wine is best enjoyed at a temperature of 15 - 18°C. It is perfect as an accompaniment to roasted calf's liver with apples, onions and balsamic vinegar sauce, stuffed peppers or braised chicken in red wine.

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