This is Carignan and Lledoner Pelut (aka “hairy Grenache” - an uncommon mutation of Grenache). The wine is certainly young, and I think a few years of bottle age will truly allow this to shine. It opened up nicely after about an hour of air. High toned cherry and strawberry with a persistent acid and mineral streak. The wine finishes with the same noticeable herbaceous quality that I find in all of Lubbe’s wines.
This is Carignan and Lledoner Pelut (aka “hairy Grenache” - an uncommon mutation of Grenache). The wine is certainly young, and I think a few years of bottle age will truly allow this to shine. It opened up nicely after about an hour of air. High toned cherry and strawberry with a persistent acid and mineral streak. The wine finishes with the same noticeable herbaceous quality that I find in all of Lubbe’s wines.
Dec 23rd, 2020
Pretty toothsome. Fresh fruit, lots of smokey oolong tea dried rosemary—that is to say, marked by brett, which may be a deal-breaker for some of you—but I like this more & more as it’s open. Warm, its feet in the earth, but fresh. Ninety percent lladonner pelut a.k.a. ancient Catalan grenache, ten percent carignan.
Pretty toothsome. Fresh fruit, lots of smokey oolong tea dried rosemary—that is to say, marked by brett, which may be a deal-breaker for some of you—but I like this more & more as it’s open. Warm, its feet in the earth, but fresh. Ninety percent lladonner pelut a.k.a. ancient Catalan grenache, ten percent carignan.
Jun 12th, 2016
Côtes Catalanes, Roussillon, Languedoc Roussillon, France
