Heritage 1189 Pic Saint Loup - Gérard Bertrand

The Heritage 1189 Pic Saint Loup of Gérard Bertrand from the Languedoc offers a dense purple color in the glass. The nose of this Gérard Bertrand red wine presents all sorts of plums, blackberries, black currants, black cherries and morello cherries. As if that wasn't already impressive, black tea, gingerbread spice and oriental spices join in due to the aging in small wooden barrels.

The Gérard Bertrand Heritage 1189 Pic Saint Loup presents itself to the connoisseur wonderfully dry. This red wine is never coarse or meager, but round and smooth. This dense red wine presents itself on the palate full of pressure and complexity. In the finish, this youthful red wine from the wine-growing region of the Languedoc finally inspires with considerable length. Again, hints of blackberry and plum appear. In the aftertaste, mineral notes of the limestone and marl dominated soils are added.

Vinification of the Gérard Bertrand Heritage 1189 Pic Saint Loup

The basis for the powerful Heritage 1189 Pic Saint Loup from the Languedoc are grapes from the grape varieties Grenache, Mourvèdre and Syrah. In Languedoc, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of limestone and marl. The grapes for this red wine from France are harvested, at the time of optimal ripeness, exclusively by hand . After the hand harvest, the grapes arrive quickly at the winery. Here they are selected and carefully ground. Then fermentation takes place in small wood at controlled temperatures. Fermentation is followed by 9 months of aging in oak barrels. The aging in wooden barrels is followed by a considerable bottle aging, which makes this red wine even more complex.

Food recommendation for the Gérard Bertrand Heritage 1189 Pic Saint Loup

Experience this red wine from France ideally tempered at 15 - 18 ° C as a companion to lemon chili chicken with bulgur, boeuf bourguignon or goose breast with ginger red cabbage and marjoram.

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